Workshop: Lyric Cardiograms with Diya Abbas
Mahmoud Darwish says “Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?” What happens when we think about time through the poem? Can our bodies be poems? Can our bodies be clocks? Can poems be clocks? This workshop maps the relationship between the heartbeat of the body (BPM) and the musical beat or meter
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of the page (BP) to reorient our relationship with time as something that can be made through syncopation (improvisation) and concatenation (form). It is through tools of the poem, the lyric, the line break, the syllable and its music we will learn to hack the algorithm of labor-time from our bodies as automatons. We will learn how the poem creates algorhythyms where our attention belongs not to machines, but the poem’s autonomic improvisation as a way to formalize human autonomy through craft. Remote 3-Hour Workshop | Saturday | November 21 | 12-3pm ET This r emote class will take place on Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to you by a staff member in the week leading up to the class start date. All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions. By attending or participating in this program, you agree to abide by our Community Agreement. About the Educator: Diya Abbas is a Pakistani Butch from the Midwest. Her poems and essays can be found in Poetry Daily, Sinister Wisdom, Adroit, North American Review, The Offing, Michigan Quarterly and others. She believes the poem is a clock. The poem makes time. Find more of her muses at diyabbas.com.