In this fast-paced hands-on craft talk, we'll read and write together as we demystify the often under-recognized pleasures of syntax: the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences. Please bring pen and paper!
Catherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space, just published by Graywolf Press, and Human Hours (Believer Book Award, NYT "Best Poetry of 2018" selection). A Guggenheim fellow, she received a 2022 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, The NY Review of Books, The Yale Review, The Nation, Harper’s, and elsewhere. She teaches in NYU's MFA Program and works as an independent editor.