Library Workshop Reading Poetry
Reading poetry can seem like a daunting exercise, but it doesn’t have to be!
Join us for “Painting with Words: The New York School Poets,” the fourth instalment of our Reading Poetry workshops, where we’ll turn to the writing of the poets working in New York in the sixties and seventies who made fast friend with Abstract Expressionist painters like Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Elaine and Willem de Kooning in the hopes of answering two simples questions: What are poems made of and what can they do?
The aim of this workshop is to give you the tools and vocabulary with which to discuss, think about, and above all, appreciate poetry.
You can attend the workshop in-person or online. Please email library@morrin.org to learn more or to sign up!
Poems Under Study:
“Why I am Not a Painter,” by Frank O’Hara
“Blue Sonata,” by John Ashbery
“20,” by Barbara Guest
“A hundred per cent,” by Eileen Myles