Events
Opening the Essay: For Artists and Others with Jane Hirshfield (Workshop and Reading)
Dec 5 2009 4:00PM - 9:00PM
Workshop Details
Saturday, December 5
4–5:30 pm
CIIS Main Building
$35
Reading and Book Signing
Saturday, December 5
7–9 pm
CIIS Main Building
$18
About the Workshop
The essay form has its roots in a word meaning "try," "trial," "test," and "weighing"—it is a way to sketch and stretch through into new and deepened realms. This brief workshop will explore essay writing as a tool of opening: a way to expand investigation, discovery, and understanding for those who may not ordinarily or primarily write in this form.
We'll look at how essays think, how to choose a subject, and the many possibilities inherent in the form. Participants should bring paper, pen, and a first sentence and the title from an essay (by someone else) that they admire.
About the Instructor
Jane Hirshfield, whose work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Orion, and five editions of The Best American Poetry, is the author of six prize-winning poetry collections, including After and Given Sugar, Given Salt, as well as a now classic book of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. She has also edited and cotranslated several anthologies including Women in Praise of the Sacred: Forty-three Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women. In 2004 the Academy of American Poets honored her with the 70th Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement.
Cosponsored by the Writing, Consciousness, and Creative Inquiry Department at CIIS.
Online Registration is closed for this event - tickets available at the door.
