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{Workshop} Burning Down the Old Year: Writing Poems about the New Year
January 8, 2021 @ 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
$20Platform: Zoom
Tuition: $20
To register, email jswilliams1307@gmail.com.
About the Workshop:
In this intensive generative workshop, we will discuss how contemporary poets have explored the landscape and emotional changes of the New Year season. Despair, hope, burnt bridges, newly built ones; this time of year is rich with metaphor.
We will analyze diverse poems from contemporary poets such as Ted Kooser, Naomi Shibab Nye, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Martha Collins, and others, followed by hands-on writing activities, prompts, and plenty of in-class writing time.
About the Teacher:
John Sibley Williams is the author of five collections, most recently As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press), and Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). A twenty-four-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Wabash Prize for Poetry, Philip Booth Award, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, and Laux/Millar Prize. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and founder of the Caesura Poetry Workshop series. He works as a poetry coach, editor, and literary agent. Previous publishing credits include Yale Review, Verse Daily, North American Review, Southern Review, Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and various anthologies. Visit him at https://www.johnsibleywilliams.com.