Part of The Poetry Society of New York's Weekly Virtual Workshop Series.

With poet Shelley Wong!

Poems torque around the linebreak. Editing is often posited as a taking away, of killing your darlings. How can we maximally make poems, taking the image as far as it can go, and save the darlings? We’ll explore ways in which we can expand and disrupt our poems through collage and counterpoint, reading poems by Craig Santos Perez, Erin Marie Lynch, Jackie Wang, and others.

About the Instructor: Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (2022), longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships and support from Kundiman, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Montalvo Arts Center. Her recent poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The New Republic. She lives in San Francisco.

* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**