Poetry Workshops:

I’m currently running a beginning poetry workshop, and plan to add an intermediate/advanced workshop this summer. Please email me for information about joining our current group or for information about the next cycle, beginning May 16, 2010.

Guidelines for Beginning Workshops:

Workshops meet every other Sunday evening, from 7 to 9 pm, and will run in eight- meeting cycles; eight meetings in sixteen weeks.

 

Workshops are limited to eight students, and will run with a minimum of two.

 

No experience is required, but it is helpful if you have taken an introductory course in poetry or creative writing, and are familiar with contemporary poetry.

 

Students should be committed to and interested in the process of learning to write well—which means being open to revision and critique.

 

The goal is to become more skillful readers and writers of poetry. We will spend the first hour focusing on elements of craft, studying published poems, and reading short essays/chapters on the writing and revision process. In the second hour, the focus is on new work; the group will discuss and critique each others’ poems, helping them become more fully realized; we will point out strengths and weaknesses, offer suggestions for revision, and delve into the “heart” of the poems, drawing out their fundamental themes and tensions.

 

If you have to miss a meeting, you will receive written feedback on your work and/or a phone conference.

 

Tuition must be paid in full, in advance of the first meeting.

Guidelines for Avanced Workshops

For experienced students with a body of work, focusing on publication

 

Specific guidelines to be determined by the needs and desires of its members. Please contact me if interested.

Tuition & a la Carte Services

Full eight-week workshop cycle: $300, ($50 discount if you recommend a friend who joins)

 

Private writing conferences/manuscript conferences: $35/hour or $20/half-hour

Need a moderator/guide for your workshop? $35 per meeting (two hour max)

Summer Workshop Dates (tentative):

5/16, 5/30, 6/13, 6/27, 7/11, 7/25, 8/8, 8/22