Matthea harvey biography

Matthea harvey poems

BA, Harvard College. A recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Award and a Guggenheim fellowship, she most recently collaborated on a musical oratorio, The Temp , with Taylor Ho Bynum, creating the libretto by erasing The Tempest. SLC, —. This semester, we will experiment with using the museum as our muse. Perhaps you will be inspired by security guards or museum catalogs or architecture.

Matthea Harvey. Perhaps we will, at some point, meet in person. In the meantime, there are pets to be met. Students will write one poem per week. In this class, we will look at the use of facts as the spring boards for poems and lyric essays. We will examine how facts can be transformed, distorted and framed by the various filters we use as poets imagination, diction, formal strategies, etc.

Sebald along with selected lyric essays. For their conference project students will choose an area of research a historical figure, a cartoon character, news articles, etc. Metamorphosis is a painful process. I imagine the exquisite agony of the caterpillar turning itself into a butterfly, pushing out eye-stalks, pounding its fat-cells into iridescent wing-dust, at last cracking the mother-of-pearl sheath and staggering upright on sticky, hair's-breadth legs, drunken, gasping, dazed by the light.

He could feel his eyes leaning out of his skull on their little connectors.