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Join teaching poet Asiya Wadud at the Poetry Society for a Saturday workshop geared toward children grades K–5. In this first session, students will focus on concrete lunes & diamond poems.
“Concrete lunes are small three-line poems where the first line has three words, the second line has five words and the third line has three words. What is possible to do in an eleven word poem? We will also look at diamond poems, which are twenty-five word poems that take the shape of a diamond. Every word matters in concrete and diamond poems, so how do we start to pare down our poems to write with the constraint in mind? How can constraint and limits be a good thing in a poem? How can they serve the poem?”
Asiya Wadud teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School, Columbia University, and Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Mandible Wishbone Solvent (University of Chicago Press). Her recent work appears in e-flux journal, BOMB magazine, Triple Canopy, POETRY, Yale Review and elsewhere. Asiya’s work has been supported by the Foundation Jan Michalski, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Danspace Project, Finnish Cultural Institute of New York, Rosendal Theater Norway, and Kunstenfestivaldesarts among others. She lives in New York.
