lyric threads + finding yourself in the "I"

They are ingenious. They are subtle. They are ways to outsmart the gods. And they are a way to outsmart ourselves. Writing a lyric, reading a lyric makes us more capacious and subtle. They trick

In just a few weeks, 6 - 10 poets and lyric essayists will be meeting on Sundays for close feedback and generating new work together. This first cohort of lyric threads lab is called the cloud cohort — for the writers who pull threads of image and emotional urgency from the sky. For the writers who put the sky into form. If you’re one of these writer…