PSNY Virtual Workshop: Beyond Convention

With poet Kindall Gant!

What happens when poetry defies tradition? Poetic forms can be portals to other worlds without any of their assumed limitations. Looking at poems by Franny Choi, Danez Smith, Aziza Barnes, torrin a. greathouse, Jericho Brown, and others for inspiration we’ll explore how knowing the rules of the abecedarian, sonnet, ars poetica, haibun, prose poem, and others can help us subvert them with intention. Opening up space for innovation and experimentation, we'll create work that pushes past the expected to dismantle and reimagine structures.

About the Instructor: Kindall Gant (she/they) is a Black femme interdisciplinary poet and New Orleans native based in Brooklyn. She experiments with visual storytelling as liberation through themes of home, heritage and history, bringing poems into conversation with expressive forms like film, visual art, music and photography. They have received support from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, MASS MoCA, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Watering Hole, Studio Museum in Harlem and Ma's House among other arts institutions. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and appears or is forthcoming in Torch, the What a Time to Be Alive zine carried at the Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin, the 1619 Speaks anthology published by the Sims Library of Poetry, Brooklyn Poets, The Poetry Society of New York's Milk Press, Obsidian, and Polemical Zine.

* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**