Poetry Lecture: "Extreme States: Urgency in Poetry" with Marsha de la O

Join us for the first poetry lecture in a short series this summer at Studio Channel Islands Art Center!

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"Extreme States: Urgency in Poetry"

Urgency is an element that can arise from radically different places in the psyche.  The focus is on the work of Wanda Coleman, a distinguished Black Los Angeles poet who passed in 2013.  Her work has only become more important & discussed in the last ten years. We’ll be looking at music, spirituality, and rage as accelerants for creativity.

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Marsha de la O is a lecturer in the English Department at California State University, Channel Islands, where she teaches poetry and creative writing. She is the author of Every Ravening Thing, Antidote for Night, and Black Hope. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, The Slowdown, and many journals, and she is a recipient of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize. She lives with her husband in Ventura, California, where they founded the Ventura County Poetry Project to support local poetry.