Part of The Poetry Society of New York's Weekly Virtual Workshop Series.With poet Christian Gullette!Place or landscape in a poem can amplify powerful interior feelings, using image and diction and details of the world to raise the emotional stakes. Whether ecological, urban, or the landscape of a hospital room, garden, office or highway, various landscapes can serve not merely as background in a poem but reflect a speaker’s interior emotions such as desire, grief, joy, or erotic longing. These landscapes can even loom so large that they almost become characters or figures in their own right, both amplifying and resisting a speaker’s concerns. We’ll take a look at poems by poets such as C. P. Cavafy, K. Iver, Randall Mann, Aria Aber, Tomas Tranströmer, Diane Seuss, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Elizabeth Bishop, Carl Phillips, Natalie Shapero, Issam Zineh, Natalie Diaz, Rachel Mannheimer, Alice Oswald, Boris Dralyuk, and James Longenbach. explore the range of different possible ways poems feature landscapes as vehicles for emotion, then use the time to generate and share writing inspired by this exterior – interior relationship in our poems. About the Instructor: Christian Gullette is the author of the debut poetry collection Coachella Elegy, winner of the 2023 Trio House Press Trio Award and praised in The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly. His poems have appeared in The Washington Post, The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, the Poem-a-Day (Academy of American Poets), and The Yale Review. Christian completed his Ph.D. in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley, and when not serving as the editor-in-chief of The Cortland Review, he works as a lecturer and translator. He lives in San Francisco.* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**