Workshop: Remembering Mine: Towards a Personal Poetics with DéLana R.A. Dameron
Workshop: Remembering Mine: Towards a Personal Poetics with DéLana R.A. Dameron
5 Sessions: Mondays, November 4-December 2
6:00-7:30pm ET
DéLana R.A. Dameron
DéLana R.A. Dameron is an artist whose primary medium is storytelling. She is the author of two books of poetry. Her debut novel Redwood Court was a NYT Editor's Choice and a Reese's Book Club Pick. She is currently working on her second novel Fairfield County.
“they ask me to remember / but they want me to remember / their memories / and I keep on remembering mine” — lucille clifton
Over the course of the four-week poetry writing workshop, writers will take their cue from the works of Lucille Clifton, a writer who poet Mari Evans contends reflects optimism, an emphasis on "the qualities which have allowed us to survive, and the belief that we have the ability to make things better." Writers will investigate and interrogate their own personal memories, exploring the many ways the personal may shape the political, and how our lived experiences can be shaped, told and discovered through poetry. We will consider exemplar poems by Clifton that span her writing career.
Workshop Highlights:
Generative & collaborative workshop space
Individual feedback from instructor
Deep reading of a single poet that spans a career
Scholarships available. For information, please contact Kate Mabus, kate@theshipmanagency.com
DéLana R. A. Dameron is an artist whose primary medium is storytelling. Her first book of fiction is Redwood Court (Random House, February 2024), a Reese Book Club pick. She is a graduate of New York University’s MFA program in poetry and holds a BA degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her debut poetry collection, How God Ends Us, was selected by Elizabeth Alexander for the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, and her second collection, Weary Kingdom, was chosen by Nikky Finney for the Palmetto Poetry Series. Dameron is also the founder of Saloma Acres, an equestrian and cultural space in her hometown in South Carolina, where she resides.
