Meet Sandra Beasley, instructor for our intensive, four-month [link id=’2135031′ text=’Assembling Your Poetry Collection’] workshop, and have all your questions about the program answered! The Writer’s Center staff will be on hand, too, to address any logistical questions.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM

An intensive 4-month workshop to help you complete your poetry manuscript!

April 2022–July 2022
Virtual
Instructor: Sandra Beasley
$2,150

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.