The Mythic “I”: A Poetry Workshop with Susan Comninos
Join the Troy Public Library and local poet & author Susan Comninos for a poetry reading & writing class at the Main branch on Saturday, November 11th, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
This class will explore the creation of a speaker who’s virtuous, un-self-blaming, special — and also, not quite real. Beginning poets, especially, like to create this kind of “I for their poems: a fantasy self that, given its outsized power or goodness, reads as one-dimensional. So what happens to the tone of a poem when we deliberately play up the flawlessness of the “I,” to the point of absurdity? The answer can be comedy, insanity, or self-irony: all of which can serve a poem in interesting ways, all of which will be explored in this class.
Susan Comninos’s poetry has appeared in the Harvard Review Online, Rattle, The Common, Prairie Schooner, and North American Review, among others. She’s taught writing at Siena College, The College of St. Rose, SUNY Albany, and UVA’s Young Writers Workshop. Susan recently released her debut collection of poetry, Out of Nowhere.
Registration is required. Call (518) 274-7071 or visit our website at www.thetroylibrary.org to learn more.
This workshop is sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild.
