Part of The Poetry Society of New York's Weekly Virtual Workshop Series.With poet Timothy Ree!Some say the main difference between poetry and prose is the line break. While poetry contains images, words, sonics and rhythm, we’ll focus more closely at the overall shape of the poem — or why we break the line at all — and the rationale behind these visual decisions. We’ll explore ways in which a poem changes depending on its container, or how a poem might hit differently, like cold milk from a mug for a change rather than a tall glass (or vice versa). We’ll look at select poems by Idra Novey, Eduardo C. Corral, and others.About the Instructor: Timothy Ree is the author of BEASTING (2022), a debut collection of poetry conceived during the pandemic. In turns both surreal & grounded in the particularities of Korean American experience, Ree’s work explores the intersections of race, politics, & family dynamics from the onset and at the height of the pandemic where anti-Asian rhetoric found its way into the streets, onto subway platforms, & all throughout urban & suburban pockets where Asian Americans reside all across the country. In one poem the speaker asks, “How many dogs ago / were we wolves? How bout we amble / the ask of the day down a hallway / of sunflowers?” This is a book of transformations — of evolving or devolving — into the beasts we once were or had soon learned to be, to survive with dignity in an era of panic, seclusion, xenophobia, & political tribalism. The son of Korean immigrants, Timothy teaches literature & writing at a public high school in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a BA in English Literature from Wheaton College (IL) & an M.Div from Yale University. His poems have appeared in Tribes, Great Weather for Media, & The Cortland Review. He has received grants & fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Cave Canem, Poets House, the Academy for Teachers, & the Bread Loaf School of English. He is a recipient of the Robert Haiduke Poetry Prize from the Bread Loaf School of English.* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**