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Mountain Writers: Poetry Revision Workshop with Lex Runciman
September 19, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$300This poetry revision workshop assumes that to begin writing a poem is to initiate a unique process of curiosity and discovery, and that to complete a poem is to end that particular process. Thus, our workshop aim will be not to fix a draft or finish a poem — though those things could happen. Rather our aim will be to intuit and explore the draft’s materials, to understand its intentions (first without the writer’s comment), and to identify and experiment with possible fruitful revision. Our aim will be to deep the writer’s sense of possibility for that poem and become more aware of revision possibilities for other poems as well. Participants will distribute drafts to be discussed the following session. No beginners. No prompts.
- Meets: Thursdays, 6:00 – 9:00 PM, September 19 – October 31, 2019 [no class Sept. 26]
- Cost: $300 (Six three-hour sessions)
- Enrollment: Minimum 4, Maximum 9.
- Location: TBA
Lex Runciman holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah and an M.F.A from the University of Montana, where he studied with Madeline DeFrees and Richard Hugo. He has authored six books of poems, including Salt Moons: Poems 1981-2016 from Salmon Poetry (Ireland) and The Admirations (Lynx House Press), which won the Oregon Book Award in 1989. Winner of the Silcox Prize and the Kenneth O. Hanson Award, his poems have been featured on Verse Daily and reprinted in several notable anthologies, including Alive at the Center (Ooligan Press, 2013) and From Here We Speak, the poetry volume of the landmark Oregon Literature Series published by Oregon State University Press in 1994. In a 25-year career at Linfield College, he won the Olds-Hellie Award for Creative Achievement in 2014 and was twice named the Edith Green Distinguished Professor. He lives now in Portland, Oregon.
[More details and a PDF on the Mountain Writers website]