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BAFS ARCHIVE PRE 031918
“You go to Academia to find out what is on the formal table. You go to Free Skool to yank off the tablecloth.” – Mr. If Beyond Academia was founded in May of 2012 in Boulder, Colorado, at the request of the local writing community as a forum for the discussion of poetics and related…
Community Presence
“As keystone poets of the Boulder community, we find no greater calling than to bring the enjoyment of language back to the everyday citizen.” Community Presence Strategies Active Programs: Boulder Poetry Tribe Website The Boulder Poetry Tribe was founded in 2013 by Jonathan Montgomery as an online forum to share scheduling for poetry…
Summer Poetry Camp 2021
BAFS 7th Annual Summer Poetry Camp July 7th-11th 2021 CE UnCerTainTy: The Moment of Creation It would be difficult not to recognize the recent medical & social pandemics that have shaped our culture during the past 18 months. A level of isolation inevitable crept into all our lives. BAFS closed its ‘doors’ along with the…
Summer Poetry Camp 2019
BAFS 6th Annual Summer Poetry Camp July 5th-15th 2019 CE Outlaw Poetics / Literary Activism The history of American poetics is founded upon its Outlaws, from Whitman to Stein to Micheline, including the likes of the Imagistes, Harlem Renaissance, Post-Moderns (Black Mountain/SF Renaissance/Beat), and Slam. These out-law, or out-canon, poetic movements leave us now in…
Summer Poetry Camp 2018
BAFS 5th Annual Summer Poetry Camp July 6th-16th Synchro-Mythological Poetics Synchronized Mythology describes a type of telepathy between two or more people. In a group with a shared mythological background, external stimuli can trigger synchronized reactions. This can be illustrated by the typical Gen X reaction to the song “Bohemian Rhapsody”, which includes maximizing…
Summer Poetry Camp 2017
BAFS Summer Poetry Camp 2017: THE PAGE, THE STAGE, & THE STREET A primary question in contemporary poetics is whether to write for the page, the stage, or both. It is often evident at our local open readings which choice the authors have made for their poems, and sometimes for the main body of their…
Summer Poetry Camp 2016
BAFS Summer Camp 2016: Inhabiting Poetry Our study of poetry leads us to find that most of the greatest poets were also extraordinary characters, and that the artistry of their work and the nature of their notoriety are intertwined. As poets must delve deeper into the uses of language than any other form of communication,…
2012 Pamphlet
From our original 2012 pamphlet: Beyond Academia: Poetics of the Real World Like any educational institution, a “school of poetics” will train you to write in the ways most compatible with their canon. Once graduated and if sufficiently cloned, the school may even offer job or publishing connections, but ONLY if you are a new…
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