Through October on Mondays and Wednesdays, Carol Ann Davis is running an Image Intensive Poetry Workshop! Poets of all levels are welcome to enhance their craft through readings, generative exercises, lessons, and conversations.
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![A clouded sky background, bouncing between pastel blues, violets, and pinks. A rounded, translucent rectangle in the center, with the words: SOPHIE BRESS: You mentioned earlier that there are both very concrete parts and then there are elements [in the concepts of shape and momentum] that feel more difficult to pin down... What do you hope readers will gain while going through its pages?
LIZ LERMAN: My dream for the book is that it gives people an opportunity to experiment with their own living... You can come into the world and create the shapes you need. Creating the shape you need is hard, and you have to convince other people that it’s real. Sometimes you have to find another person who has the same shape so that the two of you together can form a shape and get people to see it. Interview between Sophie Bress and Liz Lerman, The Brooklyn Rail](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ee3czvgxvwdfbadvmgh5jvvz/bafkreigmj63bvv4xnhhw5m55llzq6fj53wvrrxg2yeqwnv5j3mfispyi74)
![A similar background, this time with less clouds, and a sunset more distinctly casting shadows and orange hues on the pink, purple clouds. The sky is still a pale blue. In a rounded, rectangular box are the words: LAUREN GILGER: When you talk about the world kind of being in constant motion, do you mean literally, like everything’s moving all the time in some sort of cellular fashion? Or is this more like metaphysical to you?
LIZ LERMAN: [I]t's actually all those things. And that's kind of the surprise, isn't it? I mean, really and truly, the ground is moving under our feet, our bodies are busy changing, and we know that there are large changes going on institutionally, culturally, and even with the air we breathe. So it's I think an interesting way to consider that as much as we try to stabilize, maybe being able to manage all that movement would also be a useful stance in the world. Interview between Lauren Gilger and Liz Lerman, The Show on KJZZ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ee3czvgxvwdfbadvmgh5jvvz/bafkreiak6mu3wouexmwurbb2t6fzmdre3bqjyrka7lloizobuegresp7mi)
