fourteenpoems - July 30 Chad Bennete

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000">This workshop will ask participants–what queers a poem? They will discuss traditional poetic forms that have been inhabited queerly, as well as new forms invented to address the queer experience. We will then experiment with writing in existing poetic forms, and/or inventing our own, to explore how poetry can give shape to otherwise ephemeral aspects of queer existence.</span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000">Chad Bennett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. His poetry has appeared in journals including Denver Quarterly, Fence, fourteen poems, Gulf</span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000">Coast, jubilat, The Offing, Poetry, The Poetry Review, and The Volta. His first book of poems, Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era (Sarabande Books, 2020), was chosen by Ocean Vuong for the 2018 Kathryn A. Morton Prize. He is also the author of Word of Mouth: Gossip and American Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), a critical study of the queer poetics of gossip.</span></span></span></p>

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