Workshop: Poetic Narratives: Writing the Varied & Whole Story with DéLana R.A. Dameron
Workshop: Poetic Narratives: Writing the Varied & Whole Story with DéLana R.A. Dameron
4 Sessions: Monday, July 8, 15, 22, 29
5:30-7:30pm ET
DéLana R.A. Dameron
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.
“We tell this story every year,” Natasha Trethewey says in “Incident" from her Pulitzer prize-winning collection Native Guard. What happens when you tell and re-tell a story? How does the story sound from multiple perspectives? How was the story told five years ago? Yesterday? Today? How will you tell it, and through what lens, tomorrow?
In this generative workshop, over the course of six weeks, participants will investigate a topic or idea of their choosing through six different writer’s poetic investigations, exploring the many ways one story can be told, explored, and discovered through a series of poems. We will consider exemplar poem-series by poets Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Elizabeth Alexander, Lucille Clifton, Nikky Finney, Sharon Olds and more.
Workshop Highlights:
Leave the workshop with a sequence of poems
In-depth reading of published work & craft discussion
Individual instructor feedback
2 full 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.
