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Getting the Poetry Engine Started: Writing & Revising Poetry with H.E. Fisher (via Zoom)
July 6 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
$265.00
This 4-week, 2-hour workshop is designed for those who would like to kickstart or refine their poetry writing practice. In this class, we will look at poems from established writers such as Michael Longley, Nicole Sealey, Marie Howe, and Ilya Kaminsky, as a means to discuss craft: line, imagery, language, and the consideration of form (both traditional and non-). Participants will be asked to bring in one poem per week to workshop. A list of resources of further readings, prompts, and tips for submitting poems for publication will be also provided. All levels welcome.
NB: This class will be taught on Zoom, 4 Thursdays, 10:30AM-12:30PM ET, July 6-July 27, and will be capped at 10 students. Registrants will receive the Zoom link to the email address they use to register. It will arrive immediately after registration so please check your spam folder if you do not receive it. It will also be sent the day before class as a reminder. Please review the course policies page before registering for any classes. Please email [email protected] with any questions.
H.E. Fisher is the author of the hybrid collection Sterile Field (Free Lines Press, 2022) and poetry chapbook, Jane Almost Always Smiles (Moonstone Arts Press, 2022). H.E.’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ligeia Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, Whale Road Review, Indianapolis Review, The Rumpus, The Hopper, Miracle Monocle, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Canary, among other publications. H.E. was awarded the 2019 Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson at City College of New York, has been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize, and is a No, YOU Tell It! storytelling alum. H.E. is a writing tutor, editor, plain language ‘translator’, and the editor of (Re) An Ideas Journal, founded by author Felice Neals, and is the co-founder of Say Ah!, a health literacy organization.