An intensive 4-month workshop to help you complete your poetry manuscript!
Are you confident in individual poems, but overwhelmed by putting together a book? Have you struggled to find mentorship that can provide a “bigger picture” of your work, and what it can do? This class is for you. This four-month course combines asynchronous weekday posts, readings, and prompts, with three-hour online seminars twice a month on Sundays (eight total) that are designed to solidify our craft conversation. We start by discussing ordering strategies and shaping a manuscript’s meta-text (titles, sectioning, epigraphs et al). Then we’ll then look at your proposed opening and/or closing poems, as a chance to get to know each other’s voice on the page and offer line edits. The bulk of our workshop time is devoted to exchange and review of manuscripts-in-progress. We’ll wrap up by returning to the topic of meta-text—sharing our Tables of Contents as an update to the work done in class—and discussing submission strategies.
Workshop Zoom Dates:
April 10 and 24
May 8 and 22
June 5 and 19
July 10 and 24
To apply, send a one-page overview that outlines previous workshop experience and goals for publication, and your submission of 5-7 sample poems from the manuscript to laura.spencer@{{{{homeurl_non_www}}}} by March 14.
LIVE VIDEO CONFERENCE: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platform, Zoom. The dates and times will remain the same. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. Shortly before the start date participants will receive an email with login info. Please check your spam if you don’t see it.
If you need an accommodation for this workshop, please contact us at access@{{{{homeurl_non_www}}}}. We will attempt to fulfill all requests, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.
