Full Manuscript Poetry Workshop with Trevor Ketner (Zoom)

With well over a decade of editorial experience in the poetry space working for magazines, presses, and prizes (including Poetry magazine, Tupelo Press, Alice James Books, and The National Poetry Series), I will lead a group of advanced students through shaping, polishing, and submission considerations for full-length poetry manuscripts for publication. After an orienting first session to discuss various possibilities for book structures and avenues for publication, the group will meet weekly to hold in-depth focused workshops on each participant’s manuscript. The first half of each workshop will be, essentially, a book club, in which the group discusses the strengths in, conceptual framework of, and questions about each manuscript as a manuscript. This will act as a foundation for an open discussion with the author about their creative intentions for the book and their publishing goals and how the manuscript can be shaped to better align with them if needed.

Level/requirements: Advanced/full…