WORKSHOP

We offer monthly theme-based online writing workshops. Workshops are designed to create an accessible and supportive space to both emerging writers as well as those with an established practice. Participants submit poems for feedback on a weekly basis, with optional writing prompts also provided. Space is provided at the end of each workshop for a discussion of the weekly readings. Scroll down for more information about upcoming sessions.

THE STRANGE

Now enrolling for January

THE STRANGE returns for January. We will discuss Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of ostranenie, most commonly translated as “defamiliarization.”  Topics of concern will be all things strange! Reading list includes James Tate, Russell Edson, Tomaz Salamun, Vasko Popa, Alice Rahon, Alfred Starr Hamilton, Franz Wright, Bernadette Mayer, Alejandra Pizarnik, David Berman & more!

4 weekly Thursday meetings
January 8, 15, 22, 29.
6-8pm EDT
meetings held online via Zoom
$75-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: THE STRANGE

VISIONS OF EXCESS

Now enrolling for January

For January, blush present Visions of Excess, a workshop focused on poetry that makes generous use of rich, dense, and hallucinatory imagery. Reading list includes Arthur Rimbaud, Georges Bataille, Alejandra Pizarnik, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Philip Lamantia, Storm de Hirsch, Harry Crosby, Angus MacLise & more.

4 weekly Tuesday meetings
January 6, 13, 20, 27.
6-8pm EDT
meetings held online via Zoom
$75-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: VISIONS OF EXCESS