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Dates: 4 Mondays, January 26-February 16 Time: 7-9pm (Pacific Coast Time) Format: In Person at Left Margin LIT Ages: Adult Class Description: In the lobby of the Schomburg Center for Research into Black Culture in Harlem, NYC lies a singular cosmogram dedicated to Langston Hughes’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” The poem and art piece span continents, and, remarkably, it is beneath the cosmogram that the great poet's remains are interred. This class’s first core thematic is the cosmogram: The vivid portrayal of a story world that the writer strives for, the rivers of narrative that they travel down, and the origin and destination points that comprise its coordinates. Through writing exercises and collective imagining, we will create story structures from the simple to the elaborate. The second thematic: The ashes interred beneath. The ideas that we unearth from study and memory, from experience and imagination. Tunneling beneath the surface of our understanding, through analytic and empathetic questioning, we will access the individual characters who people the cosmogram, the world, the story. LEFT MARGIN LIT'S CANCELLATION/REFUND POLICY: If you find that you can't take a class for which you registered, you may request a refund, less a $25 administrative fee, at least 48 hours prior to the start of the first class session. After that threshold, refunds are not possible. If a class doesn't reach its minimum enrollment, it will be cancelled, and all students will receive full refunds.