Poetry Writing Workshop: Learning from Osip Mandelstam (in translation) *Online* *NEW*

Osip Mandelstam, considered one of the most important Russian poets of the 20th century, wrote poems with an ironic heft and a lyrically compelling strangeness. His political stance irked the Stalinist bureaucracy of the USSR, eventually leading to Mandelstam’s death. Participants can bring in poems on any subject, but the optional exercises, based on Mandelstam’s poetry, include deriding an ogre, writing a toast, writing a whimsical poem about a street musician or other performer, creating arresting images of winter, writing a poem about a sacred space, and writing an elegy.Instructor: Tom Daley

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Tom Daley’s poetry has appeared in The Boston Globe, Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Fence, Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Witness, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere. Recipient of the Dana Award in Poetry, he is the author of House You Cannot Reach—Poems in the Voice of My Mother and Other Poems (FutureCycle Press). A chapbook, Far Cry, was published by Ethel in the spring of 2022. His artist book, Body Surfing, Venice Beach, a poem illustrated with his own watercolor sketches, was self-published in 2024.