The Grotesque and the Abject 4-Week Generative Poetry Zoom Intensive with Javeria Hasnain, Starts Sunday, June 1st, 2025
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The Grotesque and the Abject 4-Week Generative Poetry Zoom Intensive with Javeria Hasnain, Starts Sunday, June 1st, 2025

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Begins Sunday, June 1st, 2025 Class will meet weekly via Zoom on Sundays, 11AM EST - 1:00PM EST. Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Led by Javeria Hasnain, a Brooklyn-based poet, translator, and educator from Karachi, and the author of SIN (Chestnut Review, 2024). Her poems have appeared widely, including in Poet Lore, Pleiades, Foglifter, Rattle, and more. She received her MFA from The New School as a Fulbright scholar and is currently teaching at Habib University. Learn more about Javeria in our Meet the Teaching Artist series. Who says poetry can only describe beauty? In this generative poetry intensive, let us (re)make the ugly, the grotesque, and the abject into poetry. I am interested in poetry's ability to see everything as it really is, just as much as I appreciate it for metaphorizing. Poetry that does not shy away from the disgusting nature of desire, the grotesque in the beautiful, and the abject in the sacred

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