Life Distilled Poetry Workshop [Sliding Scale, Tier 2]
This is Tier 2 on the sliding scale. There are two more tiers available and all tiers are limited, so please be mindful and reference this resource when selecting the tier that works best for you.
This is the first half of a workshop series that is grounded in the ars poetica. For this generative workshop, we will meet weekly for a total of five sessions on Sundays from 4-6pm EST.
Session 1 (Sunday, November 10): The Form in All Things
Session 2 (Sunday, November 17): The Poem Becomes
Session 3 (Sunday, December 1): What Happens to I
Session 4 (Sunday, December 8): Rumination
Session 5 (Sunday, December 15): Oneness
Each session will include:
a mini-lecture
whole group discussion
poetry prompt
solo writing time
share out.
The syllabus will include links to the readings each week, guiding questions, and links to additional texts to explore based on each week's focus. We will be reading the work of Audre Lorde, Ocean Vuong, Camonghne Felix, aracelis girmay, Marwa Helal, Mark Nepo, Vievee Francis, Mary Oliver, and more.
Please note: For a couple of sessions, you will be encouraged to read a text or two on your own time before class. If there is interest, I would be happy to host virtual reading/read-aloud sessions to offer more structure and support.
At the end of this workshop, you will have:
five poem drafts or poem-seeds
We do plenty of prompted pre-writing together so that you can enter the writing process with as much material to work with as possible.
a stronger understanding of the function of poetry as well as poetic craft
for further exploration and added depth, a syllabus of 30+ texts (mostly poems, some essays) that engage with the ars poetica
a sense of community, and hopefully new poet-friends
a clearer sense of purpose as a poet.
*This workshop is intended to be accessible for the poetry-curious and poets at all levels.
This is Tier 2 on the sliding scale. There are two more tiers available and all tiers are limited, so please be mindful and reference this resource when selecting the tier that works best for you.
This is the first half of a workshop series that is grounded in the ars poetica. For this generative workshop, we will meet weekly for a total of five sessions on Sundays from 4-6pm EST.
Session 1 (Sunday, November 10): The Form in All Things
Session 2 (Sunday, November 17): The Poem Becomes
Session 3 (Sunday, December 1): What Happens to I
Session 4 (Sunday, December 8): Rumination
Session 5 (Sunday, December 15): Oneness
Each session will include:
a mini-lecture
whole group discussion
poetry prompt
solo writing time
share out.
The syllabus will include links to the readings each week, guiding questions, and links to additional texts to explore based on each week's focus. We will be reading the work of Audre Lorde, Ocean Vuong, Camonghne Felix, aracelis girmay, Marwa Helal, Mark Nepo, Vievee Francis, Mary Oliver, and more.
Please note: For a couple of sessions, you will be encouraged to read a text or two on your own time before class. If there is interest, I would be happy to host virtual reading/read-aloud sessions to offer more structure and support.
At the end of this workshop, you will have:
five poem drafts or poem-seeds
We do plenty of prompted pre-writing together so that you can enter the writing process with as much material to work with as possible.
a stronger understanding of the function of poetry as well as poetic craft
for further exploration and added depth, a syllabus of 30+ texts (mostly poems, some essays) that engage with the ars poetica
a sense of community, and hopefully new poet-friends
a clearer sense of purpose as a poet.
*This workshop is intended to be accessible for the poetry-curious and poets at all levels.
This is Tier 2 on the sliding scale. There are two more tiers available and all tiers are limited, so please be mindful and reference this resource when selecting the tier that works best for you.
This is the first half of a workshop series that is grounded in the ars poetica. For this generative workshop, we will meet weekly for a total of five sessions on Sundays from 4-6pm EST.
Session 1 (Sunday, November 10): The Form in All Things
Session 2 (Sunday, November 17): The Poem Becomes
Session 3 (Sunday, December 1): What Happens to I
Session 4 (Sunday, December 8): Rumination
Session 5 (Sunday, December 15): Oneness
Each session will include:
a mini-lecture
whole group discussion
poetry prompt
solo writing time
share out.
The syllabus will include links to the readings each week, guiding questions, and links to additional texts to explore based on each week's focus. We will be reading the work of Audre Lorde, Ocean Vuong, Camonghne Felix, aracelis girmay, Marwa Helal, Mark Nepo, Vievee Francis, Mary Oliver, and more.
Please note: For a couple of sessions, you will be encouraged to read a text or two on your own time before class. If there is interest, I would be happy to host virtual reading/read-aloud sessions to offer more structure and support.
At the end of this workshop, you will have:
five poem drafts or poem-seeds
We do plenty of prompted pre-writing together so that you can enter the writing process with as much material to work with as possible.
a stronger understanding of the function of poetry as well as poetic craft
for further exploration and added depth, a syllabus of 30+ texts (mostly poems, some essays) that engage with the ars poetica
a sense of community, and hopefully new poet-friends
a clearer sense of purpose as a poet.
*This workshop is intended to be accessible for the poetry-curious and poets at all levels.