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SUMMARY:Extra/Ordinary: Writing the Uncommon in the Everyday
DESCRIPTION:Close reading is a practice of attention: an antidote to spee
 d and frictionless swipability. It helps us appreciate literature more de
 eply and shapes us into more deft practitioners of craft. Paisley Rekdal 
 notes\\, “When we take the same critical care with our own writing that
  we take with published poems\\, we are bound not only to see the pattern
 s behind our failings\\, but (more important) new and more adventurous pa
 ths open up in the ways we represent our worlds.”\\nIn this generative 
 class we will close-read—and write—alongside works that resist easy c
 lassification\\, including “Everyday Barf” by Eileen Myles\\, “Dead
  Doe” by Brigit Pegeen Kelly\\, “Exhausting a Place in Paris” by Ge
 orges Perec\\, Christina Sharpe’s “The Shapes of Grief\\,” and Rekd
 al’s “Nightingale: A Gloss.” Writers will come away with sharpened 
 tools of observation\\, tactile craft practices\\, a portfolio of fresh w
 riting starts\\, and a keener sense of the uncommon and the poetic within
  the everyday—on and off the page.\\nAccess Program\\nOur Access Progra
 m offers writing class and seminar tuitions at a reduced rate. Most writi
 ng classes have at least one access spot available.\\nPlease apply here f
 or access rate tuition. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if
  you have questions.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/po
 rtland-or/events/extra-ordinary-writing-the-uncommon-in-the-everyday-2026
 -09-29
LOCATION:literary-arts.org
URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/portland-or/events/extra-ordinary-writing-the-uncommon-in-the-everyday-2026-09-29
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