NEW October Offerings: Self-Guided Lyric Essay and "Through the Veil," a prose poem workshop!
Early bird prices through 10/1
Hello, and happy almost Autumn Equinox! It’s a beautiful September day here in North Carolina, and I have some new autumn(al) offerings to tell you about.
Through the Veil: A Prose Poem Workshop
Have you ever thought, “Hm, if only I could combine my interest in prose poems with my love of the spookiness of the Halloween season? You’re in luck!
I’m offering a new one-day (Halloween-inflected!) Zoom-based workshop on prose poems on Saturday October 28th, Through the Veil: A Prose Poem Workshop. We’ll read poems that move “between worlds” (in various ways), and I will provide timed writing exercises. We’ll look at the spectral, the uncanny, the half-hidden, and the unexplained. Limited to 14 participants. $50 through October 1st!
Writing the Lyric Essay (self-guided)
I’m excited to offer a self-guided version of Writing the Lyric Essay, a course I originally designed for Creative Nonfiction. Students will go through the self-guided class together, offering each other feedback, and once the course closes, students receive a zip file of all course materials (readings, assignments, written lectures, etc. Writing the Lyric Essay opens on October 22nd. $45 early bird price through October 1st!
Some responses from students about my courses:
Thank you for the readings and your insightful and sequential structure of this class. You exposed us to a diverse and talented group of writers. I am so grateful for your expertise in creating this course. Offering the zip file is so generous of you. Many thanks!
These past few classes with you have been helpful to me. Thank you for the time and energy you put to them. You're really, really good at what you do, and I hope you know that.
Thank you for this wonderful class—what an experience. The readings are stellar and worth going back to—and I will—and the prompts! What I liked about them was how they took me to places in my writing I have never been before or thought I could be.
Readings:
I’m reading poems tomorrow at So & So Books in Raleigh, North Carolina with Tresha Faye Haefner and Sarah Rose Nordgren. Doors open at 7 and reading starts at 7:30. Come through if you’re near!
And next week, on Friday Sept. 29th, I’ll be in Brooklyn reading in a Bookend event of the Brooklyn Book Festival with my friend and collaborator Todd Colby! (see below)