Dis/Course
Marina Vishmidt Reading Group: A Dis/Course Workshop with Andreas Petrossiants
Revelling in the language of others is a thrill. So is the permission to turn it into something else, to not have to be so original all the time, to recognize the camp brilliance of some trash out there in the bad world and use that to illuminate something, and to draw on memory, contempt or adoration of another object to set our own writing in motion.
This five-week workshop will go deep on poetry that primarily uses, transforms, doubles or responds to found material rather than foregrounding original composition. We'll think hard about different modes of derivative writing—such as drag, satire, rewriting, ekphrasis—and we’ll study the potential of repeated and distorted language. We'll read work by, among others, Trish Salah, Jack Spicer, Bernadette Mayer, John Keene, Trisha Low, Shiv Kotecha, Ted Joans, Jo Barchi, Rainer Diana Hamilton, Cecilia Vicuña, Kevin Killian. And we'll experiment widely at home and in class with writing our own derivative work.
Access info: The meeting room is up one flight of stairs from the street, handrail, no elevator.
