Find you unique poetic voice!
Writing poems is discovery on paper, and good poems surprise and delight the poet as much as anyone. In this workshop you will try on a variety of styles and forms on the way to finding your own poetic voice. We will read poems together and use them as starting points for your own work, both in and out of class. The goal is for you to come away from the class with a portfolio of favorite poems–poems discovered in reading, discovered in writing. Required text: A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver.
Live video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platform, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the start date or the day before, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it).
In this workshop you’ll learn:
- Line and meter
- Image
- Sound
- How to steal (in a good way)
- How to workshop and revise
Time requirements
- 2 hours/week
Materials
- A Poetic Handbook by Mary Oliver (this is available free online)
Who should take this workshop?
- The class is designed for new and intermediate poets interested in learning how to use sound, meter, and image in their poetry.
If you need an accommodation for this workshop, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.
