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Albergotti to teach master class in poetry at NC Writers Conference

Dan Albergotti, poet and professor at Coastal Carolina University, will lead the master class in poetry, "The 'What It Is' and the Unteachable Lesson: On Form in Free Verse and the Search for Metaphor" at the North Carolina Writers' Network 2017 Fall Conference, Nov. 3-5, in Wrightsville Beach.

He also was recently invited to The New School in New York to read his poem, “Weapons Discharge Report,” that was included in "The Best American Poetry 2017.

In his master class, poets will take a close look at several poems that illustrate: (1) the truth that "free verse" is never truly free of form and (2) the god-like and elusive power of metaphor. Attendees will also talk about the poems submitted by the participants as well.

Albergotti is the author of “The Boatloads” (BOA Editions, 2008) and “Millennial Teeth” (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), as well as a limited-edition chapbook, “The Use of the World” (Unicorn Press, 2013). His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Five Points, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review and two editions of the Pushcart Prize, as well as other journals and anthologies.
 

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