Tuesday, November 3· 7pm– 9pm
Workshop: Who are “You”: Exploring the Direct Address in Poetry with grace (ge) gilbert
Remote Workshop
We are taught in school that pronouns need an antecedent: something to clarify who exactly we are talking to or about. But is this always the case in our poetics? Sometimes, the word “you” is like the word “god”—we are pointing to something larger, painting with broader strokes. In this six-week, generative workshop,
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we will complicate our understanding of the direct address through theory, model poems, and weekly workshops of our own original writing. We will discuss the direct address, explore weekly expansive and immersive prompts related to our readings, and discover together what it means to hail the “you” in a poem.