Poetry and Lyric Prose with Jennifer Clement
Jennifer Clement
5-Week Intensive Zoom Master Class for Poetry and Lyric Prose with Jennifer Clement, prize-winning writer, director and founder of the San Miguel Poetry Week, and President Emerita of PEN International
Five Monday Evenings, April 7 to May 5th
6:00 to 8:00 p.m. EST
Class is limited to 14 participants
$450
Please email Jennifer with your name and email address to confirm there’s a space.
Using models from international poets and lyric writers, internationally known and published poet, Jennifer Clement has designed a workshop to inspire moving, thoughtful, and aesthetically sophisticated new work. Participants will do in-class exercises, read each other’s work and respond, as well as discussing assigned in-class reading. We will devote time to the exploration of metaphor and simile, the senses and synesthesia, persona work, etymology, and music.
Participants will do in-class exercises, read each other’s work and respond, as well as discussing assigned in-class reading. We will devote time to the exploration of metaphor and simile, the senses and synaesthesia, dialogue, persona work, etymology and music.
It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes. Gustave Flaubert
The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word… (and) must heed only the call that arises within (…) from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art. Federico Garcia Lorca
Jennifer Clement is President Emerita of the human rights and freedom of expression organization PEN International and the only woman to hold the office of President since PEN was founded in 1921.
Clement’s award winning novels, memoirs and poetry have been translated 38 languages and have been taken to the stage and screen. Her work has covered topics such as the stealing of little girls in Mexico (Prayers for the Stolen) gun violence and trafficking of guns into Mexico and Central America (Gun Love) as well as writing about her life in the art worlds of Mexico and New York in Widow Basquiat and The Promised Party.
Jennifer Clement was raised in Mexico where she lives.
“Clement is a brilliant stylist; her figurative language is far more than fine; her metaphors and similes are superb; and together they create a haunting atmosphere—sometimes fey, occasionally whimsical, no stranger to tragedy but always heartfelt and spot-on, as are her beautifully realized, captivating characters. Though suigeneris, her work may remind some readers of Flannery O’Connor’s. Always evocative, it is an unforgettable knockout not to be missed.”— Booklist (starred)
