The Art of Description (Livestream)

How is perception rendered into language? How do we go about the tricky business of representing the physical world on the page? Description isn’t there just to make a poem feel more vivid; it’s a way of revealing the self, characterizing the perceiver. In this seminar, we’ll look at a number of exemplary poems and practice with exercises designed to enrich sensory detail and get more of your individual way of knowing the world onto the page.