Four Poets: Larry Levis, Ada Limón, Carl Phillips, and Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Tyler Meier
Spring 2024
Mondays |  
10AM - 12PM
January 29, February 5, 12, and 19, 2024
Course Format: On Campus
Location: Main Campus
Tuition: $135

 

In this course, we’ll explore the work of four writers contemporary to each other, week by week: Larry Levis, Carl Phillips, Ada Limón and Brigit Pegeen Kelly. We’ll spend time together learning about what makes them the celebrated writers they are—what formal choices they might be making on the page, and how their unique styles as poets create a singular quality to their work. Each course session will have a short orienting lecture, and the balance of the time will be more conversational in nature, following student feedback and questions arising from the course reading. In surveying these four poets, students will gain a framework for approaching contemporary poetry and develop skills that can be broadly applied to other work.

 

Meet Your Instructor

Poetry Center Executive Director

Tyler Meier is the Executive Director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center and an Affiliated Faculty member with the Department of English.  His poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry, Boston Review, Indiana Review, Washington Square Review and elsewhere.  Prior to his position in Tucson, he was the Managing Editor of the Kenyon Review.  

Location

POETRY CENTER
Dorothy Rubel Room
1508 E Helen
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States

Located on the SE corner of Helen Street and Vine Avenue, one block north of Speedway and three blocks west of Campbell Ave.

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