James Merrill used a Ouija board to commune with the spirits of the dead. He got 560 pages out
of it. French Surrealists described their dreams, Tracy K. Smith took an eraser to the Declaration
of Independence, and Jericho Brown writes lines on slips of paper that he slides around until
something interesting pops out.
In this workshop, we'll use techniques such as erasure, web-surfing, tarot decks, and more to
help attendees relinquish some control to outside forces (and the unconscious) during the
drafting and revision stages of their processes. This can create work that functions less by logic
than by juxtaposition, association, the element of surprise--what Robert Bly called poetic
"leaping."
Link to recording:
https://salemstate.zoom.us/rec/share/feAIO17e4v2bcUPSpZZOKif1AYahXShxenQ7mv-aF8plb3k6ZdwZrtcG3iUxsM6E.rhHGDgGXipdsD1rA
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