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Insurrections of the Ordinary: Poetry, Magic, and the Occult; A 5-session workshop w/ Michael Cavuto
Admission
- $200.00
Location
St. Mark's Rectory
232 E 11th St.
New York, NY 10003
232 E 11th St.
New York, NY 10003
Summary
Date & Time: Wednesdays, April 8–May 6, 7–9pm ET, In-person, St Mark's Rectory, 232 E 11th St.
Description: Aimé Césaire, the great Martinican poet, wrote in a 1944 text titled “Calling the Magician” that “the revolution will be social and poetic or it will not be.” This five-week course will attend to magical practices and uses of occult knowledge to consider the possibilities of poetic revolutions and insurrections of the ordinary. We’ll study ways that poetic practices attuned to the mythic, the ritualistic, and the persistence of the sacred reorient us toward radical creative potentials, following in the spirit of Alice Notley when she wrote that “the poet’s job is to unsay Fate.” Generation of participants’ own writing will be a central focus of the workshop, and we’ll dedicate significant time to sharing and discussing each other’s work in relation to the themes of our collective study. Divinatory methods such as the Tarot will be adopted as models for creative reading and writing, and we’ll read poetry and poetry-adjacent texts by writers such as Will Alexander, Asiya Wadud, Alice Notley, Susan Howe, Robert Duncan, Etel Adnan, Nathaniel Mackey, Jayne Cortez, H.D., Diane di Prima, Kamau Brathwaite, Fanny Howe, Hoa Nguyen, and Cedar Sigo. Artists working in other media are welcome and encouraged to join the workshop, as our discussions will not be limited to written poetics.
Access info: The meeting room is up one flight of stairs from the street, handrail, no elevator.
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Description: Aimé Césaire, the great Martinican poet, wrote in a 1944 text titled “Calling the Magician” that “the revolution will be social and poetic or it will not be.” This five-week course will attend to magical practices and uses of occult knowledge to consider the possibilities of poetic revolutions and insurrections of the ordinary. We’ll study ways that poetic practices attuned to the mythic, the ritualistic, and the persistence of the sacred reorient us toward radical creative potentials, following in the spirit of Alice Notley when she wrote that “the poet’s job is to unsay Fate.” Generation of participants’ own writing will be a central focus of the workshop, and we’ll dedicate significant time to sharing and discussing each other’s work in relation to the themes of our collective study. Divinatory methods such as the Tarot will be adopted as models for creative reading and writing, and we’ll read poetry and poetry-adjacent texts by writers such as Will Alexander, Asiya Wadud, Alice Notley, Susan Howe, Robert Duncan, Etel Adnan, Nathaniel Mackey, Jayne Cortez, H.D., Diane di Prima, Kamau Brathwaite, Fanny Howe, Hoa Nguyen, and Cedar Sigo. Artists working in other media are welcome and encouraged to join the workshop, as our discussions will not be limited to written poetics.
Access info: The meeting room is up one flight of stairs from the street, handrail, no elevator.