Literary Cleveland · Introduction to Confessional Poetry

Introduction to Confessional Poetry

A movement marked by the work of Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop (and several others), confessional poetry continues to foster taboo subject matter and shapes the way poetry is written years after the death of its progenitor’s. Throughout this generative workshop, participants will learn about the work of Sexton as well as contemporary poets such as Brenda Shaughnessy, Sharon Olds, Hala Alyan, and Leila Chatti and create poetry of this nature with these poems as models. We will discuss the use of ‘I’ in contemporary poetry and the ways in which poetry is still influenced by this movement.

Instructors

Caitie L. Young (they/she) is a queer and nonbinary fiction writer and poet in Kent, Ohio. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Minnesota Review, the Santa Fe Writer's project, Scapegoat Review, and others. Cait is studying creative writing in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program (NEOMFA).

Olivia Farina (she/her) is an undergraduate student at Kent State University who is majoring in English and minoring in Creative Writing. She has been interning at the Wick Poetry Center for two years. Some of her work can be found in Luna Negra Magazine.

Details
Introduction to Confessional Poetry with Caitie L. Young and Olivia Farina takes place Thursday, May 5 from 7-9pm remotely online via Zoom.

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