Workshop with Quraysh Ali Lansana

6/14/2001 – 6/14/2001

7:00pm

Stetching: An intensive poetry workshop with Quryash Ali Lansana. Athletes stretch before working out. They flexmuscles, sooth tensions, then attempt to run faster or jump higher. Why can’t poets do the same?

This workshop will introduce various forms and techniques outside of the usual narrative box. Special emphasis will be placed on sonics, rhythm, lineation, and use of white space. Quraysh Ali Lansana is the author of the poetry collections south side rain (Third World Press). and The Walmart Republic (with Christopher Stewart-unpublished); a childrens book, The Big World (Addison-Wesley); and a poetry chapbook, cockroach children: corner poems and street psalms (nappy head press). He is also a co-editor of Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Literature (Third World Press). He is the recipiant of numerous awards, including: the 2000 Poet of the Year Award, Presented by Chicago’s Black Book Fair. His most recent publication credits include Keeping Track 41 Voices 41 Visions for Amadou Diallo, Obsidian III, Bum Rushin the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, and Powerlines: A decade of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex.

Performers

Quryash Ali Lansana