Poetry Workshop
Tyree Daye was raised in Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of the poetry collections a little bump in the earth (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), and River Hymns (American Poetry Review, 2017), winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. He has poems published inThe New Yorker, Callaloo, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
A Cave Canem fellow and a Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellow, Tyree is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a Kate Tufts Award finalist, and a 2021 Paterson Prize finalist. He was the 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received an Amy Clampitt Residency. Tyree is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Course Description
Our course is workshop and lecture-centered, focused on poetry writing. Our class will help you hone your writing skills and inspire you to take risks. You will have the opportunity to try a variety of exercises, explore new styles and techniques, receive feedback on poems, and develop practices and habits that will help you in your writing life. Our workshop will consist of a 15-minute question/answer/question session. Your 15 minutes begin after you have read your poem. After the poet has read, they will share their questions about the poem. Please consider 4-5 questions you have about/for your poem before the workshop. We will attempt to answer those questions for 5-7 minutes. With 8-10 minutes left, we will ask questions about the poem’s crafting. For example, “I wonder how the poem could use enjambment to make this particular line more interesting?” “I wonder what would happen if the poem physically placed us?” “How does time work within the poem?” etc. I will also provide a series of essays and craft talks to watch at the end of each workshop, along with a poem prompt. These prompts will be on the honor system, but I do hope that you use your evenings to try each one.