Remote | 6 Thursdays | Jan 15 - Feb 19 | 6:30 - 8:30pm ET | $360 ($320 for members)

As poets, we know that to become better writers, we must also become better readers of poetic work. But how does one do that? Where do we begin? By this point, you may be familiar with examining a text and asking: What does this poem mean? We will move from asking “what” an author is doing or what their work means and towards “how” their craft choices lead us to create meaning from a text. We will give language to the rhetorical devices used in poems and how poets pattern their language, and then use this knowledge to generate our own work. If we want to break the rules of poetry successfully, we first have to know what they are. Think of the workshop not as a place for us to “rehabilitate” your writing, but instead as a place to experiment, take risks, and learn from your peers.

Remote Workshops will take place on Zoom.