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I Felt a Funeral in My Brain: Poetry Workshop with Elizabeth Metzger, Begins June 1
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Mondays, June 1- 22, 2025
6:00 - 8:00pm ET (NYC Time)
$175 Paid Patreon Members / $195 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
In this poetry workshop, open to all levels of experience, we will explore poems that blur the edge between the living and the dead.
Following in the voices of poets across the lyric tradition, from ancient times to the present day, we’ll cultivate our own creative spirits and sparkle together on the cusp between life and death. With weekly readings about poetry and death such as Lorca's essay on the Duende and Lucie Brock-Broido's Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties, we will consider the lyric impulse as wound and ledge, afterlife and rebirth. We will use these readings and model poems, alongside generative prompts provide by the instructor, as we explore our own voices and craft, while offering each other written feedback and constructive discussion.
This workshop will help move the beginning, intermediate, or advanced poet toward new poetic gestures and realms, whether this means exploring a personal grief or loss or imagining the posthumous perspective or inventing a heaven or hellscape. Students will come away with four new poem drafts, at least two of which will receive written comments from the instructor and peers. Students will also emerge with a deeper grasp of death poetry and the concepts behind this core topic in lyric poetry from ancient elegies to contemporary laments, poems of agony and pain to poems of the ecstatic spirit.
Elizabeth Metzger is the author of The Going Is Forever and Lying In, as well as The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Bed and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Her poems have recently been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, BOMB, The New York Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement. She is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and lives in Brooklyn with her family. She has received support from Yaddo, PEN America, and Yale University. Metzger teaches poetry at Columbia University, the 92nd Street Y, and Poets & Writers.
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Mondays, June 1- 22, 2025
6:00 - 8:00pm ET (NYC Time)
$175 Paid Patreon Members / $195 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
In this poetry workshop, open to all levels of experience, we will explore poems that blur the edge between the living and the dead.
Following in the voices of poets across the lyric tradition, from ancient times to the present day, we’ll cultivate our own creative spirits and sparkle together on the cusp between life and death. With weekly readings about poetry and death such as Lorca's essay on the Duende and Lucie Brock-Broido's Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties, we will consider the lyric impulse as wound and ledge, afterlife and rebirth. We will use these readings and model poems, alongside generative prompts provide by the instructor, as we explore our own voices and craft, while offering each other written feedback and constructive discussion.
This workshop will help move the beginning, intermediate, or advanced poet toward new poetic gestures and realms, whether this means exploring a personal grief or loss or imagining the posthumous perspective or inventing a heaven or hellscape. Students will come away with four new poem drafts, at least two of which will receive written comments from the instructor and peers. Students will also emerge with a deeper grasp of death poetry and the concepts behind this core topic in lyric poetry from ancient elegies to contemporary laments, poems of agony and pain to poems of the ecstatic spirit.
Elizabeth Metzger is the author of The Going Is Forever and Lying In, as well as The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Bed and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Her poems have recently been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, BOMB, The New York Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement. She is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and lives in Brooklyn with her family. She has received support from Yaddo, PEN America, and Yale University. Metzger teaches poetry at Columbia University, the 92nd Street Y, and Poets & Writers.