The Erotic Poem
Who ever desires what is not gone? No one. The Greeks were clear on this. They invented eros to express it.” Drawing on Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet, we will explore the various facets of eros, looking to the Ancient Greeks for clues as to why desire is so bittersweet. We will close read and discuss a selection of poems by Maxine Kumin, Derek Walcott, Louise Glück, Robert Hass, and others before writing and sharing our own poems of eros in the second hour.
INSTRUCTOR:
Maya C. Popa is the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (Norton) and American Faith (Sarabande). Her newsletter, Poetry Today, is one of Substack’s bestselling literature publications. The poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she teaches at NYU and runs Conscious Writers Collective, a year-round online literary platform and community for dedicated writers.
Who ever desires what is not gone? No one. The Greeks were clear on this. They invented eros to express it.” Drawing on Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet, we will explore the various facets of eros, looking to the Ancient Greeks for clues as to why desire is so bittersweet. We will close read and discuss a selection of poems by Maxine Kumin, Derek Walcott, Louise Glück, Robert Hass, and others before writing and sharing our own poems of eros in the second hour.
INSTRUCTOR:
Maya C. Popa is the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (Norton) and American Faith (Sarabande). Her newsletter, Poetry Today, is one of Substack’s bestselling literature publications. The poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she teaches at NYU and runs Conscious Writers Collective, a year-round online literary platform and community for dedicated writers.
Who ever desires what is not gone? No one. The Greeks were clear on this. They invented eros to express it.” Drawing on Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet, we will explore the various facets of eros, looking to the Ancient Greeks for clues as to why desire is so bittersweet. We will close read and discuss a selection of poems by Maxine Kumin, Derek Walcott, Louise Glück, Robert Hass, and others before writing and sharing our own poems of eros in the second hour.
INSTRUCTOR:
Maya C. Popa is the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (Norton) and American Faith (Sarabande). Her newsletter, Poetry Today, is one of Substack’s bestselling literature publications. The poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she teaches at NYU and runs Conscious Writers Collective, a year-round online literary platform and community for dedicated writers.