Poetry as Refuse, Stuff, & Salvage with Dr. David Huebert

with Dr. David Huebert

Sunday, September 27

5-8 p.m. Eastern

Google Meet

Sliding Scale

What does it mean that a culture has a concept of garbage, waste, refuse? Does it need to be this way? What better teacher might we imagine for poetry than a downtrodden, reviled, forgettable entity like trash? How culpable are regimes of disposability in our current endlessly escalating ecological spasm? Drawing on the plastic insights and scrappy poetics of Max Liboiron, Tommy Pico, and Jordan Abel, this workshop will use a group analytical exercise to break down and reorganize lines of a specific text into a communal poem--not erasure but subversive upcycling. Participants should bring in a piece of garbage that has a story behind it, leading to a conversation about the ethics and aesthetics of waste, and ultimately a writing exercise emerging from the formal techniques we've examined and explored together. Together, we will seek to find some salve in salvage.