FREE POETRY READING

In this 10-week writing workshop, Qui Vive! writers joined poet Tyler Doherty and professor Leif Gustavson to explore, exploit, and explode the conventions of catalogue verse, otherwise known as the list poem. Participants modeled forms from the snarky 13^th century midnight jottings of Japanese courtier Sei Shonagon, through the scope and splendor of lists that populate Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, to the playful and detail-packed “Things to do” catalogues of Beat poet, Gary Snyder.

Who: Qui Vive! middle and high school poets
When: December 15, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Cliveden of the National Trust,
6401 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia
How Much: Free!