I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You: Adventures in the Poetic Second Person

The poetic can be notoriously slippery—pointing to speaker, reader, or beloved; to “one" or the other. Combine this slipperiness with a readiness to change (and be changed by) the poem's voice and syntax, and the second person becomes a powerful tool for poets interested in the speaker's relationships with reader, self, and other. Together we'll read, write, and experiment, exploring the many possibilities (and a few pitfalls) of the second person.you

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LISA GLUSKIN STONESTREET is the author of (Frost Place Prize) and (Morse Poetry Prize). Her poems have appeared in journals such as and and anthologies including and . She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she reads, writes, edits, teaches, and works one on one with writers from her backyard Poetry Shack. She has terrible handwriting but is surprisingly good at math. The GreenhouseTulips, Water, AshPlume, Zyzzyva,Kenyon ReviewNasty Women PoetsThe Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetrylisagluskinstonestreet.com

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