Paris Writers' Workshop 2022 with WICE, June 26-July 2, 2022:
https://wice-paris.org/pww2022
Poetry / Hybrid Writing Workshop
Instructor : Jennifer K. Dick
The power of poetry lies in
its ability to transgress limits.
By this I
mean that poetry traverses borders, internal and external boundaries of time,
memory and voice. It expands our notions of what language can do. Technically,
poets steal from the tool box of any written or artistic genre to find the
modes of expression apt to the poem. For it is never what a poem says that
makes it unforgettable, but how. This workshop, taking place within Paris, will
be stimulated and nourished by generative writing in and about the city. The
idea is to, as Victor Hugo said “Breathe Paris in. [For] it nourishes the
soul.” And in these complex times, nourishment, expanding outwards, finding the
words and the language to speak is tremendously important—both for those of you
coming to Paris for the PWW and those of you who reside here year round. The
technical focus will be on broadening your personal skill set. This will happen
first through dialoging with samples of writing by contemporary poets from
around the world as you compose new work based on prompts, experimentation and
observation. Second, close reading of our own and each other’s work will hone
our revision abilities. Third is what you will do after the PWW. This workshop
should leave you with new modes to explore on your own and methods to deepen,
hone and develop in your writing at home as you publish your first or fortieth
book of poetry.
Please
provide a writing sample of max 10 pages (1 poem max per page). During the week
I will meet with each of you personally to discuss your writing sample. Note:
the goal is not to provide me with your most polished work, but rather to give
me a sample of work that you need help polishing or which feels like it needs
something that perhaps another reader can help you locate and unpack.
INSTRUCTOR BIO
Jennifer K Dick is the author of
That Which I Touch Has No Name (Black
Spring Press Group, London, 2022),
Lilith:
A Novel in Fragments (Corrupt, 2019),
Circuits
(Corrupt, 2013) and
Fluorescence (University
of GA Press, 2004) as well as 6 chap/artbooks. She has worked as a literary
editor & reader for
Versal
(Amsterdam),
Upstairs at Duroc
(Paris), &
The Colorado Review, has
taught Creative Writing Workshops for WICE, the PWW, Kent University’s
Paris in The Arts, Strasbourg Write a
Story, and guest taught for Naropa and LIU Brooklyn’s MFA programs. She directs
the UHA English Dept, curates Ivy Writers Paris & co-organizes “Écrire
L’Art” at Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d’Art Contemporain.
Originally from Iowa, residing in
France for over 20 years, she has also lived in Norwich, England, Colorado, and
Massachussetts, and travelled extensively. Thus she is interested in writing
about place and displacement, and global polyphony—that is, the connections we
have to our language as it slips in and out of the languages of others. Recent
projects include completing the manuscript Shelf Break, the writing of a
chapbook of shipwreck-related poems for Tupelo's 30/30 project last August and
collaborating with dancers, filmmakers and visual artists. Jennifer looks
forward to the opportunity to encounter your poetry/mixed genre writing as you
explore migrations, poetry and Paris together during the summer2022 PWW.
Go to the WICE website to sign up at: https://wice-paris.org/event-4745869
