This two-hour seminar and generative craft session explores Coleridge’s idea of “stocking up on metaphors” and Ginsberg’s notion of “shopping for images” in poems about—and in conversation with—the setting of the supermarket. It invites readers and poets to revisit and rethink what they know about the power of imagery and metaphor and the variety of ways that metaphor can be achieved on the page. The second half of the class is devoted to generating poems inspired by/borrowing techniques from the examples studied in the first half.

Your will receive a replay of the craft class + the course packet to complete at your own pace