Saturday, December 9, 4:00 pm
TICKETS HERE (for Saturday’s open reading event)
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION HERE (to participate as a poet)
To See Yourself in the World of a Poem: A Poetry Workshop with Carlie Hoffman
(Writing workshop: Saturday, December 2, 3-5pm; Presentation: Saturday, December 9, 4 pm )
Workshop Description: This two-part workshop will involve time with Carlie to discuss poetry, and learn how to transform your passion into print (December 2, 3-5 pm). Then, the participants will gather in the theater on Saturday, December 9 to share their work with each other and the general public, discuss, and learn. You do not need to publicly read your piece if you do not want to.
Carlie asks: Are you interested in getting to know yourself and the world we inhabit more deeply through writing your own poems? Participants in this workshop will learn about two enduring poetic forms, Haiku and Villanelle, as accessible entry points into writing our own poems. Participants are encouraged to try writing a Haiku or Villanelle, but this is not required, as we will also look at formal poetry as a point of departure into our own free verse and writing freely by breaking form. This workshop is meant to be generative and open to interpretation. Participants of all poetry levels are welcome.
Poems to study:
"After the Farm was Sold to FedEx" featured on The Slowdown
"Regardless, a Bat Mitzvah'd Woman Cannot Make Minion" featured in Poetry Daily
Books to consider:
When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023)
This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2023)
Carlie Hoffman is the author of When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023) and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the NCPA Gold Award in poetry and a finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. She is the translator from the German of Weiße Schatten / White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions, 2023). Carlie’s honors include the 92Y “Discovery” / Boston Review poetry prize, a Poets & Writers Amy Award, the Loose Translation Award, and fellowships from Columbia University and the City University of New York and her work has been published in Los Angeles Review of Books, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, Boston Review, New England Review, Jewish Currents and other publications. Carlie lives in Brooklyn, where she edits Small Orange Journal. She has taught at Columbia University and NYU and is a Lecturer of creative writing at the State University of New York at Purchase.