IMPROVE YOUR WRITING WITH EVERY POEM YOU READ
In this workshop, you will become a poetry mechanic. Together, we will look under the hood of poems and take them apart to see how they run. Then you’ll learn how to use similar structure or technique as a template to elevate your own language and generate new material. This workshop will teach you how to analyze craft and apply the same to your own poetry with confidence and precision. We will read and examine poems by sam sax, Franny Choi, Brandon Melendez, and more.
In this workshop, participants will:
Learn how to read for craft instead of content
Learn how to identify and replicate specific techniques and structures using their own material
Be able to identify and explain what makes language surprising and effective
Create endless prompts from any poem