Revising in the Gap: A Craft Talk with Cindy Juyoung Ok
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Poetry at Bennington鈥擲pring 2024
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | In a revision-focused poetry session, writers pose gaps in the page and within language as meaningful and exciting鈥攁nd as critical to the drafting process. With cues from writers like Gwendolyn Brooks and Monica Youn, emptiness is reframed as a poetic intactness and revision as an embrace of multiplicities.
It is suggested that attendees bring in an existing poem or two for this session.
About
Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward (Yale University Press, 2024), winner of the 118th Yale Younger Poets Prize, and the chapbooks "House Work" (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023) and "Syntaxed" (Poetry Online, 2023). Contest judge Rae Armantrout says of Ok, 鈥淪he writes in many forms, some invented, but her constant impulse is to break the frame, to escape oppressive containments鈥er impulse is to shake things up.鈥 Her work has appeared in Bennington Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Nation, Poetry, and The Yale Review. A MacDowell Fellow, Ok has served as a Poetry Foundation Library Forms & Features visiting teaching artist, and was a reviewer for Harriet Books in 2022鈥2023.
Photo credit: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey