2023 Summer Workshops

Andrea Cohen The Long and the Short of It – Expansion & Distillation: A Poetry Workshop June 23 to June 28, 2019 Tuition: $650 Workshop: 1-4pm Discipline: Poetry OPEN TO ALL On-site Housing Available

We’ll look at ways to simplify and add complexity to poems. And we’ll explore ways of deepening our poems, and leaving a door open for mystery and surprise. This will include looking at the work of a few poets who do this (effortlessly, it would seem); writing new poems; and workshoppng your poems.

Please bring 10 copies of two of your own poems that you have not been able to finish or get quite right.

Biography

Andrea Cohen's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Her sixth poetry collection, Nightshade, will be published by Four Way Books in 2019. Recent books include Unfathoming and Furs Not Mine. Cohen directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA and the Writers House at Merrimack College.