The Writer's Studio @ Coffee House Press
The Iris Workshops: Sound + Color + Poetry
Coffee House Press is thrilled to announce our inaugural courses for The Writer's Studio @ Coffee House Press!
Registration has closed for this course
Classes are capped at 10 participants and registration is first come first serve.
We will hold one spot in each class for a scholarship student. To learn more about scholarships, please click here.
Classes will be held in person at the Coffee House Press offices located at 79 13th Avenue NE, Minneapolis.
This class will begin on September 19 and meet once a week for six sessions from 6-8pm. See below for exact dates.
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Class Description
In this 6-week workshop, we will read, receive, and generate poetry at the confluence of sound and color. Through the portal of imagery, we'll explore poetry’s vibrational frequencies via semantic, somatic, sonic, craft, and mystical considerations. What might it mean to observe William Blake’s advice, and see through not with the eye? We’ll read poems by Anne Carson, CA Conrad, Etel Adnan, and many others, who, like the Greek goddess Iris, connect earth to the heavens (the material to the etheric, the seen to the unseen) along the spectrum of light, and generate our own writing and poems in pursuit of vivid ineffability.
About the Instructor
Elisabeth Workman is a writer and poet with a background in dance. She's the author of a dozen chapbooks—including The Figures: A Litter (Dancing Girl Press)—and the poetry collections ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND (Bloof Books) and ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION (Dusie Press). Her work has appeared in The End of the World Project (Moria Books), Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing in the Anthropocene (Wesleyan), Flarf: An Anthology of Flarf (Edge Books), and in a Codex of Quotidian Beasts (with Jenny Schmid’s cryptozoological etchings). Numerous institutions have made time/space ($) for her explorations possible (including Jerome, McKnight, MCAD, MSAB, SAFTA, U of MN, the PA Council on the Arts, and In Cahoots) and in turn have informed her teaching that finds in poetry a vessel/crucible for transformation and radical embodiment. She can be found in the disembodied realm at elisabethworkman.com.
Class Schedule
Session 1: Thursday, September 19 from 6-8pm
Session 2: Thursday, September 26 from 6-8pm
Session 3: Thursday, October 3 from 6-8pm
Session 4: Thursday, October 17 from 6-8pm
Session 5: Thursday, October 24 from 6-8pm
Session 6: Thursday, November 7 from 6-8pm