Poetry workshop

And this day will be part of the story.

A course in poetry and short prose for those who write poems and stories, as well as for those who want to write them. A poetry course also for those who wish to write only good annotations of beloved bands. And actually for those who would like to write more substantial text messages. Topics: Must a poet think? Remembering is not proper writing! Must a prose writer count syllables in a sentence? A poem is not a self-portrait. Stories and verses grow out of trash – what does that mean? Free verse does not exist! Really? A dictionary as inspiration. What are rhymes good for today? The pitfalls of metaphor. Freeing a poem from initial contexts. Verse vs. sentence. Cuts in both poems and stories. How to create a collection? What can a poet in 2025 still do like no one else? And so on. Common thread: Czech poetry of the very youngest generation, not only, but primarily: Tichý, Babáková, Bártová, Černá, Krásenská, Děžinský, Řehák, Bouška, Hájek, Iljašenko, Aids, Voda, Řezníčková, Gabriel, etc. Interpretation of foreign texts. Creative response to the read and analyzed. Mutual criticism. Translation as the best preparation for a writer (Merini, Bishop, Brodsky, Akhmatova, Zagajewski, etc.) Writing in the field.