The Writer's Studio: Why Say Everything?: Considering Ellipsis in Poetry
Hannah Olinger
On October 10, please join us for Why Say Everything?: Considering Ellipsis in Poetry, a Writer's Studio workshop hosted by D.S. Waldman.
Within poetry—a mode of writing that often prides itself on the concision and precision of language—there exists a wide range of linguistic volume. That is, some poems say more than others, fill in more blanks, provide more specific details to guide the reader through a particular experience of the poem. This workshop focuses on poems that let things go unsaid, leaving more to the reader's imagination—elliptical poems, we sometimes call them. Together we will discuss elliptical language, how to use it in poems, and to what effect.
D.S. Waldman earned his MFA from San Diego State University. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review, LitHub, Narrative, and other publications. Waldman has received support and awards from Middlebury College and SDSU, where he was a Marsh-Rebelo Scholar. He’s a poetry editor at Adroit.