[Online] “City Poetics,” a 10-Week Workshop with nanya jhingran VIRTUAL [Start date: July 10, 2022]

10 sessions: Sundays, July 10-September 11, 10am-noon PT Online via Zoom Min: 4 Max: 10 COURSE DESCRIPTION: Cities—what they are, what they can be, who shapes them—are ever-changing and alive with contradictions. As such, they offer us an ideal site for poetic inquiry, inviting us to embrace paradox, ask questions, and attend in heightened detail. How have poets engaged with the cities they know and imagine on the page? How might our experiences in a city inform our poetics?  In this course, we will lend attention to the many contradictions (personal, historical, social) of “the city” as a place and an idea. Each week we will read samples spanning a century’s worth of creative and critical thought—across music, visual art, film, poetry, literature, philosophy, architecture, geography, and more—including excerpts from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Etel Adnan’s Of Cities and Women, Michel DeCerteau’s Walking in the City, Toni Morrison’s Jazz; poems by Douglas Kearney, Frank O’Hara,