I have led poetry workshops like this one for 20 years. History of the Workshop, Cost and How to Join Both in-person and virtual students find this weekly engagement generates poems, provides insight on revisions of older work, and gives new understanding to poetics.Attendance occurs in cyberspace or Toronto: weekly written materials include supplemental essays, images, sound files, links, and the like. This workshop has been called “legendary”.

An optional Google video call feature can additionally connect distant participants. For Toronto poets, it concludes with in-class reviews of mini-manuscripts as a community of poets.All students receive weekly written materials and a podcast recording. The writing portion takes the form of starting points & prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of my own design.Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental essays or interviews, and inventive writing prompts.Workshops for virtual students culminate with a one-to-one 25-minute consultation with me.

How else to write poetry? Read poetry.We spend the first hour reading poems (voiced aloud) and another hour toward writing. In this workshop, we will read and write through alternating works: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson and Float by Carson. If Not, Winter & Float A Writing Workshop with Hoa NguyenJan.

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