An entirely new type of offering!
I’m bringing my years of experience teaching writing online to a space OUTSIDE the academy, open to all!
A two-hour seminar on bringing the tools and practices of poetry into any writing practice.
I’m collaborating with my good friends at Margo Steines Creative to bring this seminar to life. Come learn what poetry can add to your practice!
Scholarships available.
“It’s often the case that prose writers and artists hold both a reverence and fear of poetry. “Poetry is the most pure form of writing, it offers the most freedom,” they might say in one breath, followed by “and I don’t understand it at all.” At the heart of this contradiction is the truth that too much creative freedom can be intimidating: when anything is possible, where and how do we begin? This course is an invitation to demystify the tools and processes of poetry writing, thus making them available to writers and artists across disciplines and genres.
We’ll take an all-levels approach that explores insights from “the basics” of line breaks and the mechanics of metaphor to what can be learned from exploring the materiality of language and linguistic logics. Together we’ll read poems by Daniel Borzutsky, Marie Howe, Simon J. Ortiz, Saretta Morgan, and others.
A variety of techniques for structuring a creative practice will be offered with the understanding that poetry is a process, not a product.
The course is open to all writers and artists of any experience level. Some previous experimentation with writing is recommended but not required.
At the conclusion of the class, students will leave with new creative experiments to use to inform their own work, as well as the seeds of new writing, poems or otherwise.”