“In tandem with Victoria Chang’s Poets Aloud evening visit for Pittsburgh Arts and Lecture on October 24, she will host an afternoon poetry craft session at Pitt.
‘Poetry Lab: Come Play!’
This will be a generative writing lab where we will read poems together and then write poems together. We will go from one set of poems and writing exercises to the next with some time at the end to share what we’ve written. Come to this workshop with a big imagination, an open mind, a laptop and/or a notebook, and be prepared to have fun as we experiment in new ways.
Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems is, With My Back to the World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2024). Her prior book of poetry is The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press, 2022). Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief was published in 2021. OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), her book of poems received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also a finalist for the Griffin International Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as longlisted for the National Book Award. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chowdhury International Prize in Literature. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.”
More info: https://www.pghwriterseries.pitt.edu/
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