THE PROSE POEM PARTY ✦ Denise Duhamel

Laura Sullivan explains that the language of prose poems is for “people who don’t often get to hold the floor and know at any moment they may be cut off.” In this class, you will filibuster through writing! We will explore prose poems as shape (think beds, billboards, mattresses, paintings), as fables, as meditations, and more.

Please bring your sense of play and adventure to this class. As Beckian Fritz Goldberg puts it, “The prose poem is like the ugliest girl at the party who is having the best time. To which I say, Party on.”

Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She also served as a guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.