PSNY Virtual Workshop: Attica Poetics: Letting Go of the Mind

With poet Latif Askia Ba!

In this achievement-focused, overstimulating society, our minds may be inhospitable at times — full of intrusive thoughts, worries, and unpleasant memories. Together let’s explore how to write in a way that our minds are no longer at the forefront of our practice. Bringing our entire bodies into focus, we will tap into our intuitive selves. What are our bodies telling us? what do they need? and how can we address these needs through poetry? We will investigate the work of Larry Eigner, Matsuo Bashō, and Hannah Emerson to explore the Buddhist concept of “acitta” (no mind).

About the Instructor: Latif Askia Ba is a poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy from Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and was the Print Poetry Editor for the Columbia Journal’s sixty-first issue. He is the author of The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon. His work appears in Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, and many other publications. His newest collection, The Choreic Period, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in January, 2025.

* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**

Host or Publisher The Poetry Society of New York