CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE: with Rachelle Rahmé
This free, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Rachelle Rahmé , one of Flow Chart’s favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “Sleeping in the Corners of Our Lives” by John Ashbery. Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group.
Whether already well-versed in the “close reading” of poems or having never been quite sure you’ve been “getting it,” CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE provides a digital gathering for taking a refreshing deep dive into poetry.
Actively participate or simply listen and learn!
The event will last about an hour and conclude with a brief reading of poetry by our special guest poet.
Rachelle Rahmé is a Lebanese-American scholar interested in collaborative liberation methodologies. She was the recipient of the Poetry Project’s 2021-2022 ESB Fellowship, and her poems and translations have been published in Fonograf, Fieldnotes, the tiny, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. Rahmé holds a Masters in Philosophy from NSSR. She is currently an MFA Candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University.
