Wild Words: Experimenting with Poetry, Flash Writing & Other Hybrid Forms

In this class, we will experiment with a variety of poetry forms (and formlessness), including found poetry, concrete poetry, prose poetry, erasure poems, hybrid writing, list poems, rants, and manifestos. We will end the week creating an anthology of the week’s work, but will compile, design and publish this book (and enough copies for other campers) ourselves, in-house, hoping to avoid a trip to FedEx in Troutdale. We will look at the classic work of ee cummings, Gertrude Stein, Jorge Luis Borges, Kurt Vonnegut, Milan Kundera, Czeslaw Milosz, Kathy Acker, Charles Simic, and many others, as well as Maira Kalman, because I love her hybrid work.