Upcoming Kundiman Events:

Cut to:
Cinematographic Techniques in poetry
& Nailing the image
with Jessica Abughattas

Sunday, April 11th
3:00 PM–6:00 PM ET

“I think that STRIP has a spirit of performance, and that’s intentional. For me, it was liberating to get to put on these different costumes in different poems and to have a speaker who can both say tender things about her grandmother in one poem and in another poem have a more scandalous and borderline histrionic way of speaking. That, to me, feels tied to performance.”
––Jessica Abughattas, The Adroit Journal: “Strip: A Conversation Between Jessica Abughattas and Anthony Thomas Lombardi” 

Films work by juxtaposing uninflected images in a series of cuts. The binding agents of context and narrative take place in the subconscious minds of the audience. The same is true in poetry. Even without dialogue or explanation, we make sense of what a poem means through the juxtaposition of its images, a tension that needs resolve.

In this one-day craft class, we’ll consider techniques in filmmaking as we read and craft our own imagistic poems. What happens if we treat a line as a unit of measurement like a shot? A stanza like a scene? Line breaks as cuts? What is the image? Where do we put the camera? What do we cut to next?

eligibility:

This craft class is open to all writers of color. The non-refundable tuition fee is $50. This class will be held over Zoom. There are scholarship spots available, and applications are open through March 25th.

Registration for this class is now closed.