Poetry and Urgency with Eve Grubin (Zoom)

This is a 4-week class, meeting on Zoom from 6:00-8:00 p.m. (ET) on August 5, 12, 19, and 26.

This 4-week session centers on writing poems that feel necessary—poems driven by urgency, pressure, and a need to speak. What makes a poem feel immediate rather than distant? How can language carry insistence, determination, or emotional force? Through focused prompts, we’ll experiment with ways to generate urgency on the page, using voice, structure, and subject to create poems that demand attention. Brief readings will ground our work and offer examples of how poets create intensity and purpose. By the end of the session, you’ll have drafted new work and gained practical strategies for bringing a stronger sense of urgency into your poems.

BIO

Eve Grubin is the author of Boat of Letters (Four Way Books), Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press), The House of Our First Loving (Rack Press) and Grief Dialogue (Rack Press). She holds a PhD on…