francine j. harris’ third collection, Here is the Sweet Hand from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, was the winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her second collection, play dead, was the winner of the Lambda Literary and Audre Lorde Awards and finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Originally from Detroit, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She is Professor of English at the University of Houston and serves as Consulting Faculty Editor at Gulf Coast.
Workshop
Sounds Like . . .
In this generative workshop, we will explore the nature of sound in your poems. You will learn specific techniques around incorporating sound and using line and sentence structure to emphasize sound in your drafts. There will be plenty of music, experimentation, and vocalization exercises to help you think through the fun of music in your poems. Poets like Nathaniel Mackey, Tracie Morris, Cathy Park Hong, Allen Ginsberg, Kazim Ali, and many more will guide us along the way.
