One of poetry’s most electrifying and idiosyncratic voices, Ruefle is renowned for her lyricism, wit, and vivid approach to language. She’s equal parts poet, essayist, and artist blending the critical with the ecstatic, the scholarly with the personal. Her collection of lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, is a singularly engaging and imaginative meditation on poetry and creativity: it is one of the most rich and delightful texts and a perfect book to revisit and discuss as a group this spring.

In this four-week course, we will closely read and discuss six of Ruefle’s essays, which will serve as springboards for our own creativity and writing. Our focus will be on reading and analyzing her wonderful essays, unraveling her uniquely poetic and playful logic, and relishing in her engagement with writers past and present.

We have so much to learn from these essays, and I can’t wait to discuss them together.

***Enrollment is limited***