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As poets we think a great deal about the creative process, but we often overlook the strange relationship between poem-making and time. What happens to us, and in us, when we write? When we read or listen? This talk will consider temporal context to reexamine how a poem exists in time and how a reader can exist inside a poem. In essence, we’ll look at beginnings and endings—but with the goal of problematizing what those words even mean. Looking at a variety of lyric poems and also considering performance, we will rewrite our old poems and write new ones as we explore what the time-space of a poem really is and what it leaves out. Participants will test out several prompts for making new work and will leave with new ideas for engaged praxis in the world.

All participants will have access to a cloud recording of the craft lab for one month afterward.