Write from the heart!
Think now of poetry as a school for emotions, and the lyric has had a revelatory power evoked through both beauty and pain for thousands of years. When you’re in the middle of writing a lyric poem that is fully inspired, it isn’t a poem at all, but a light in blindness, a splintered house in a whirlwind, with a gaping door, but you feel your way through it, until something surprises you. It is only afterwards, through revision, that it becomes anything like a poem, and then it takes off on its own. This workshop is open to all levels and offers mini-lectures as well as critiques on craft and content. The only requirement is to write from the heart, and nearly everything works, if only from the intellect, almost nothing works: it takes both to find your poem.
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:
- Students will learn how to find the poem within, and to develop skills that best capture the artistry of imagery, figurative language, formal techniques both in traditional and free forms.
Time requirements
- 3 to 4 hours
Materials
- All reading materials will be provided.
Who should take this workshop?
- This workshop is designed for all levels of poetry because the emphasis is on the generation of the poem, and finding it from within, and there is no pre-requisite for that.
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.
