CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE: with Deborah Meadows
Deborah Meadows leads a group thinking-and-reading-through of a poem by Rosmarie Waldrop followed by a short reading of her own work.
This free, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Deborah Meadows, one of Flow Chart’s favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “Conversation 23: On Cause” by Rosmarie Waldrop. Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group.
Whether already well-versed in the “close reading” of poems or having never been quite sure you’ve been “getting it,” CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE provides a digital gathering for taking a refreshing deep dive into poetry.
Actively participate or simply listen and learn!
The event will last about an hour and conclude with a brief reading of poetry by our special guest poet.
Deborah Meadows has a new book of poetry: Bumblebees (Roof Books, 2024) and her other works include: Neo-bedrooms (Shearsman), Lecture Notes, a duration poem in twelve parts (BlazeVOX [books]), The Demotion of Pluto: Poems and Plays (BlazeVOX [books]), Three Plays (BlazeVOX [books]), Translation, the bass accompaniment: Selected Poems (Shearsman Books), Saccade Patterns (BlazeVOX [books]), How, the means (Mindmade Books), Depleted Burden Down (Factory School), Goodbye Tissues (Shearsman Press, UK), involutia (Shearsman Press, UK), The Draped Universe (Belladonna* Books), Thin Gloves (Green Integer), Growing Still (Tinfish Press), Representing Absence (Green Integer), Itinerant Men (Krupskaya Press),“The 60’s and 70’s: from The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick” (Tinfish Press). She is an Emerita faculty member at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, lives with her husband in Los Angeles’ Arts District/Little Tokyo.
