Class Description
This workshop is for advanced poets who want to develop new poems, deepen their craft, and build a supportive writing community. We’ll explore the core elements of poetry: language, the line, form, rhythm, and what we need to do with these elements to build the life of a poem. We'll learn from our classmates and the work of other published poets, to inspire risk, invention, and creativity in our own poems. Throughout this course we'll write ten poems, with weekly opportunities and prompts for revision. We’ll engage in weekly poetry workshops focused on collective care and attention for each other’s work, with an openness and curiosity for how to further evolve our work. A subset of this course will also focus on strategies for putting our work into the world via readings, online and print submissions, chapbooks/collections, and fellowship/grant applications. The poets whose works we’ll explore may include Lucille Clifton, Ocean Vuong, Natalie Diaz, Joy Harjo, Adrienne Rich, Evie Shockley, Li-Young Lee, Terrance Hayes, Chen Chen, Robert Hayden, yours, and many others. This class is by submission only and previous workshop experience is highly recommended.
Please note: Class does not meet Tuesday, July 15.
Important dates: The application deadline for this class is Monday, May 26th, at 11:59PM (ET). Applications submitted after the deadline will not be reviewed and will not receive a response. The payment deadline for admitted students is Wednesday, June 4th.
Writing Roadmap: We've created a simple, goal-based writing roadmap to help you find the perfect GrubStreet course for your writing needs.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
For more detailed information about GrubStreet scholarships, including how to contribute to scholarship funds for other students, click here.
This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.