POEMS of Resistance, Rebellion, & Revolution: In-person Attendance

POEMS of
Resistance, Rebellion, & Revolution

A meditation / enhancement / POETRY Workshop focusing on poems, from ancient times to the
present, that examine and confront issues of their time. Each session will include reading, listening,
quiet meditation, writing, and sharing/discussion.

Instructor: Charles Alexander, author of 7 books and 13 chapbooks of poetry, professor of literature, creative writing, and writing, at various institutions, and some independent of all institutions, for 45 years, and director of Chax Press, a nonprofit organization dedicated to innovative poetry, poetics, and book making. 

Thursdays, July 31 to August 28, 5:30-7:30pm at City Council Ward 3 Office Meeting room, 1510 E Grant Rd, Tucson.

$125 for the whole, or $25 per session, requested contribution to Chax Press Inc. Payment may be made online or directly to instructor, but must be made outside of regular class sessions. The payment will be considered a donation toward the mission of Chax Press Inc.

Meditation because we will have silent moments of meditation after and sometimes during periods of poems being read aloud, for contemplation.
Enhancement because the course is intended to enhance your engagement with the possibilities of writing poetry. In each class we will write for a period of time, and whether you write poetry, notes, commentary, or what-you-will, you are encouraged to share that writing in open discussion.
Discussions will include talk about the poems we feature each week, plus sharing & discussion of the work of course participants.

Featured poems will include Classical Chinese poetry, poems by Sappho, Percy Shelley, June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, Alice Notley, Haki Madhubuti, Paul Celan, and more. We encourage slow and long exposure to the poem, thus we will not discuss more than one or two poems per class session.