Poetry of the Everyday with Kasey Jueds

We don’t need to wait for “special” experiences in order to write poems. Beautiful, resonant poetry can—and so often does—spring from our everyday lives: the objects we live with and love, the more-than-human beings we encounter in our backyards or neighborhoods. In this class, we’ll explore poems, and poem-making, based in the ordinary and daily. We’ll read work by contemporary poets including Jane Hirshfield, Li-Young Lee, Ada Limón, and Naomi Shihab Nye, and we’ll participate in writing exercises designed to help us see our everyday worlds as enduring, expansive sources for our poems.

Class meets in person Tuesday, October 1, 10 am – noon.

Class size: Minimum 5. Maximum 12.

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Teaching Artist: Kasey Jueds is the author of two collections of poetry, both from the University of Pittsburgh Press: Keeper, which won the 2012 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and The Thicket. Her work can be found in journals including American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Narrative, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, Cincinnati Review, Bennington Review, and Pleiades. She lives in a small town in the mountains of New York State.