"As a yell able to outyell itself"
Ryan, Lux, Pettit, Padel, Swir
New Class:
Stanley Kunitz said: “The poet's first obligation is survival. No bolder challenge confronts the modern artist than to stay healthy in a sick world."
This class will focus on using poetry as a tool to clarify our thinking and psychological sturdiness in our current moment. We will read poets from other traditions and countries who survived autocratic regimes and see what we can learn from them.
https://www.seansingerpoetry.com/join-book-club
This class will be on ZOOM, Thursday, 5/22 from 6:30-8 EST
$100
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Kay Ryan:
Thomas Lux:
Emily Pettit:
Ruth Padel:
Anna Swir (tr. from Polish by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan):
Howlin’ Wolf, “Tail Dragger,” rec. 1964:
Wow, how I wish I could attend 5/22 class, looks incredible. Will be out of country (not self-deporting, will be back) And I wish I could get a copy of the drawing/ad for the class, if you decide to sell prints, let me know. As it is, will spread the word. I put a copy of The Stalin Epigram up on my bathroom mirror, and I look at it sometimes before heading to rallies and organizing meetings. Mandlestam was, is a hammer for sure, and Havel and Rukheyser and Milosc and all of them. Anyway, thanks for offering the class, and for the survival tools in poetry that you offer us in the Sharpener.