“‘no: tongue breaks’: Poetry of the Fragment” with Dan Rosenberg
April 19 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
“‘no: tongue breaks’: Poetry of the Fragment” with Dan Rosenberg
In this generative workshop, we will explore the power of poems that we receive as fragmentary or broken. The subjects of our discussions will range from the unwitting matriarch of the fragment, Sappho, to the violently lapidary short lyrics of Paul Celan, to the contemporary explosion of erasure poetry as a site of both resistance and play. At the end of our exploration of several sample fragments, we will create our own, finding the pleasure in excavating distinct shards of beauty from a shared source text.
Workshop Dates & Cost
April 19, 2025, 12:00-2:30 PM
$90—standard registration
$74—18% discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here)
*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship.
About Dan
Dan Rosenberg is the author of Bassinet (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022), cadabra (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015), and The Crushing Organ (Dream Horse Press, 2012). He has also written two chapbooks, Thigh’s Hollow (Omnidawn, 2015) and A Thread of Hands (Tilt Press, 2010), and he co-translated Miklavž Komelj’s Hippodrome (Zephyr Press, 2016). His work has won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest.
Rosenberg holds a B.A. from Tufts University, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Ph.D. from The University of Georgia, where he was a Presidential Fellow. He is the chair of the English department at Wells College, where he teaches literature, creative writing, and translation theory. He also coordinates the Wells College Visiting Writers Series and edits the Wells College Press Chapbook Contest. Rosenberg lives in Ithaca, NY, with his wife, essayist and poet Alicia Rebecca Myers, and their son, Miles.
