Write the Beats: A Workshop of Beat Poetry Prompts

Beat era poets have had a profound influence on modern culture and mores as well as contemporary poetics—in particular performance poetry. In this class we will use prompts based on poem by prominent beat era poets such as Ginsberg, Snyder, Ferlinghetti, Diprima, Kaufman and Kerouac. Prompts will explore themes of political poetry/identity environmentalism, feminist poetry, surrealism, and spontaneous bop prosody. We will also look at works by Baraka, Waldman, and Corso for the poetry of rebellion, beat spirituality and neo romanticism. At the completion of the course, poets will have an anthology of their own beat genre poems.
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This class takes place remotely online via Zoom. Register to receive the zoom link and class instructions.

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