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To-do lists, wish lists, bucket lists, playlists, reading lists, shopping lists, guest lists, top-ten lists. We all write them or use them. While the list is a recognizable and practical tool in everyday life, it can also be a powerful—and fun—poetic form. The list poem, or catalog poem, has been written by poets from Homer and Walt Whitman to Danez Smith and Danusha Laméris. This four-week asynchronous online workshop, which includes a weekly Zoom office hour, will give you a chance to examine an assortment of modern and contemporary list poems, analyze their characteristic elements, and generate your own.
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To-do lists, wish lists, bucket lists, playlists, reading lists, shopping lists, guest lists, top-ten lists. We all write them or use them. While the list is a recognizable and practical tool in everyday life, it can also be a powerful—and fun—poetic form. The list poem, or catalog poem, has been written by poets from Homer and Walt Whitman to Danez Smith and Danusha Laméris. This four-week asynchronous online workshop, which includes a weekly Zoom office hour, will give you a chance to examine an assortment of modern and contemporary list poems, analyze their characteristic elements, and generate your own.
Teaching Artist
Jo Pitkin
Jo Pitkin is a native of the Hudson Valley. She earned a BA in Creative Writing and Literature from Kirkland College—one of the first undergraduate creative writing degrees in the United States—and an MFA in Poetry from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. She is the author of a chapbook, The Measure (Finishing Line Press, 2007), and four full-length books—Cradle of the American Circus: Poems from Somers, New York (The History Press, 2012); Commonplace Invasions (Salmon Poetry, 2014); Rendering (Salmon Poetry, 2017); and Village: Recession (Salmon Poetry, 2020). She is also the editor of the anthology Lost Orchard: Prose and Poetryfrom the Kirkland College Community (SUNY Press, 2014).
Jo’s award-winning poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including The New York Review of Books, Little Star, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review,Terrain.org, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod International Journal, Stone Canoe, Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers (Codhill Press, 2010), A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley (Codhill Press, 2013), Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse Press, 2015), Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Poets & Writers (Bright Hill Press, 2017), and The Poetry of Capital (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020).
After working as an editor at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston, Jo pursued a career as a freelance educational writer and is the credited author of more than forty books for Kindergarten through Grade 12 students, including Bill Pickett: Rodeo King and Stargazers: Astronomy in AncientTimes. She has taught college writing at Marist College and is currently a teaching artist at The Poetry Barn. She lives and works within walking distance of the Hudson River. www.jopitkin.com
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