Nothing in the universe—be it the newborn infant or the universe itself—is without age.
—Robert Pogue Harrison
How old are we? What age are we living in? What age do we belong to? How do our ideas about our age shape our sense of who we are and how we write? These are some of the questions we’ll address in this poetry workshop. We’ll read and discuss a few poems and then we’ll do some targeting writing. No prior experience with poetry required, all ages welcome.
Poet, translator, and essayist Jennifer Moxley’s most recent collection is For the Good of All Do Not Destroy the Birds (Flood, 2021). Author of numerous poetry books, as well as a memoir, Moxley’s poetry book The Open Secret won the 2015 William Carlos Williams award and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts award. She is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Maine.