Take it in.”So I want to say to this year’s winners, from Sharon Olds’ mouth to mine: take it in. She congratulated me at the party. Playwright Sarah Ruhl's first book of poetry, 44 Poems for You, offers poems that form a subtle, personal meditation on family, motherhood, and loss.With a finely tuned ear for language, Ruhl's poetry sings with a humbling honesty about what it means to share our lives with others and with those who form our hollows: a miscarriage, a close friend lost to cancer, and the s I was the only writer dressed in green, everyone else wore black, and it made me feel slightly juvenile, springy, and midwestern. Click to learn more. John Donne once said that love “makes one little room an everywhere.” And so it’s my hope that the love I have for these writers we’re celebrating tonight makes this screen an everywhere.
WASHINGTON SQUARE: You have this great quote in one of them: “I do believe thinking is an overrated medium for achieving thought.” Can you talk about that in relation to the creative process, and writing in particular?WASHINGTON SQUARE: It really felt that way, like an invitation.RUHL: The truth is, I don’t find structure until I’m about two thirds of the way in, that’s when structure starts to emerge for me. It goes back to your question about character, actually: not creating a psychology of character and then using language to reflect that or represent that, but instead finding character as you go, just as you’re finding one word to follow the next. Thus, they do not need to worry about making it up, their play has already been written (by another imaginary and great writer) and they are only translators. Playwright Sarah Ruhl’s first book of poetry, 44 Poems for You, offers poems that form a subtle, personal meditation on family, motherhood, and loss. You know, you don’t always see that kind of criticism, but when you do, it’s really beautiful, when you see that there’s a critical faculty responding and a wealth of experience and knowledge responding, but you’re also seeing the critic’s emotional life responding, too.WASHINGTON SQUARE: I think it makes sense, though, just with how physical play-making ends up becoming. Playwright Sarah Ruhl suggests that the theater-inclined among us write a poem instead: "One commodity the theater has that film and television do not have is air," she writes.
With Paula, there’s something about her example of generosity in the world, and being close to that, that’s deeply transformative. Air contains the invisible, the ineffable-- and air also contains germs.I recently learned that when the plague shut down the theaters in London in the 1590s, Shakespeare turned to poetry. It’s partly why I find auditions so helpful: you can hear at once if the actor has that kind of relationship to language. So, it’s less of an artful, highly trained, Shakespearean sense of voice, and it’s more of a simple relationship to language and emotion and transparency that I’m looking for, in terms of how actors relate to language in my work.WASHINGTON SQUARE: Writing without writing?WASHINGTON SQUARE: What do you think is the dynamic between natural speaking and poetry? Her plays include For …© 2020 Copper Canyon Press But I pretty much hear it in my head. I have high hopes for her.RUHL: That was definitely the intent.RUHL: Yeah, or like sculpting: you’re messing around with the clay, you’re messing around with the words, the structure begins to emerge, and as you start to see it emerge, then you really start to subtract and add around the structure you see emerging.Washington Square Review is the NYU Creative Writing Program's journal of fiction, poetry, and interviews. WASHINGTON SQUARE: Can you talk, then, about your great use of line breaks and enjambment? Dorothea Lasky, Sarah Ruhl, More Remember Max Ritvo By Harriet Staff At Berfrois , several writers, poets, friends, and family remember Max Ritvo (1990-2016), including Dorothea Lasky, Sarah Ruhl, Kaveh Akbar, and Kathleen Ossip.
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