Pegasus Poetry Workshop

Join us for a poetry workshop series- part lecture and analysis, part opportunity to showcase and workshop your own work.

The first hour will consist of a lecture and analysis format in which the instructors will alternatively present one classical or popular poem to the class by one poet. The instructor will create context for the selected poet and the poem to serve as the basis of a deconstruction and analysis of the poem itself, the intentions of the poet who wrote it and the social and political context of the time it was written.

We will commence with Allen Ginsberg’s seminal poem HOWL, as presented by Igor Goldkind. Other poets and poems will include The Secret Rose by Yeats, works by Lord Byron, Shelly, William Blake as well as Carolyn Forche, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, Gregory Corso, Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, Maya Angelou, James Weldon Johnson, Bob Kaufman, Leroi Jones, Amiri Baraka: and Amanda Gorman. The second hour will focus on students’ poems in which individuals will recite their new works for the purposes of group discussion. Each student will have a printed copy of the written poem in a group dynamic so that the poet may receive constructive feedback and answer questions about their work in a safe, environment. Criticism positive and constructive feedback. Students will be encouraged to rewrite their pieces and return to read them again.