$200.00
4 Sessions:
Sundays
April 27 + May 4, 11, 18
1:00-3:00 pm EDT
In some ways, we are all the places we’ve been in our lives. Experience is carried in our bodies. Our best poetry creates a uniquely poetic experience that moves readers. Relocates. In this four-week interactive craft seminar, we’ll work together to identify how our poems do what they do to our bodies and minds.
Bring your poems and work to find the poem’s voice.
We’ll turn poems like glass in a window to find their shifting light.
We’ll spend four weeks working to see – and create – our work anew.
There is no workshop component to this class, but there will be opportunities to share your work and interact with other participants.
Session One: Limning the Line
Session Two: Divining Breath
Session Three: Perception: Sound & The Body, Part I
Session Four: Active Location: Sound & The Body, Part II
Workshop Highlights:
LISTENING to the poem as it helps you to find its form
OPPORTUNITIES to share work with other participants and practice the strategies we discuss
EXERCISES: both Synchronous and Asynchronous
I’ve got over three decades of experience teaching poetry workshops, editing manuscripts, and coaching writers from early drafts through extensive revisions to publication. As the author of four collections of poetry, including Field Theories (2017) and the forthcoming I Hope This Helps (2025), I bring deep experience in craft and creativity. My work spans multimedia and explores the intersections of poetry, science, and social justice, with poems appearing in recent issues of Poetry Magazine, Zyzzyva, Orion Magazine, Freeman’s Journal, and more.