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A. Van Jordan, Poetry
A. Van Jordan is the author of Rise, published by Tia Chucha Press, 2001, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. His second book, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, published by W.W. Norton & Co, 2004, was awarded an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by The London Times (TLS). Jordan was also awarded a Whiting Writers Award in 2005 and a Pushcart Prize in 2006, 30th Edition. Quantum Lyrics was published July 2007, also by W.W. Norton & Co. He is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007, and a United States Artists Williams Fellowship, 2008. He is a Professor in the Dept. of English at the University of Michigan.
Workshop: Cinematic Movement
Despite the use of metaphors and imagery, people generally don’t think of poetry as a visual art form. Nonetheless, poems do operate on a visual plane. This workshop will help the poet see into the poem by moving cinematically on the page. We will cover not only the craft of writing but also the technique of thinking visually. Toggling between poems we will read from handouts and scenes we will view from films, we’ll solve artistic problems in poems on a visual level. This workshop includes exercises on associative language, persona, and transitions between time and space.
A. Van Jordan on the Web
