Join award-winning poet Kelly Grace Thomas for a two-hour craft-intensive where we’ll examine how the right title sets your writing up for success. In this workshop, we will examine how titles (and epigraphs) can do the heavy lifting to work multiple levels, inform every stanza, tighten arguments, and provide a container for tension, revelation, and economy. We will read and discuss poems by Ruth Awad, Jenny Qi, Patrica Smith, and more. 

In this workshop, participants will:

• Write titles so strong readers will return to them after the poem is over

• Reframe thinking about the importance of a title

• Gain confidence in building context before the first stanza

• Learn how using metaphor as a title can act as a vehicle for commentary

• Apply a five-step exercise to create strong titles quickly and efficiently 

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