2024 Summer Workshops
This workshop will focus on expanding poems beyond the space of the short, self-contained lyric. Through the reading of published poems and daily writing, we’ll explore strategies that will not only help you write longer poems, but also move your work beyond its current aesthetic and/or emotional limits.
If you have poems you consider unfinished or unsuccessful, bring them along to work with. At the end of the week, you should have at least the beginnings of four new poems, or transformations of old poems, some of which we’ll discuss in class.
In addition to the poems mentioned above, please bring copies of one relatively finished poem for reading and possible brief discussion at the beginning of the workshop.
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This workshop will focus on expanding poems beyond the space of the short, self-contained lyric. Through the reading of published poems and daily writing, we’ll explore strategies that will not only help you write longer poems, but also move your work beyond its current aesthetic and/or emotional limits.
If you have poems you consider unfinished or unsuccessful, bring them along to work with. At the end of the week, you should have at least the beginnings of four new poems, or transformations of old poems, some of which we’ll discuss in class.
In addition to the poems mentioned above, please bring copies of one relatively finished poem for reading and possible brief discussion at the beginning of the workshop.