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SUMMER Online: Poets Studio Summer Sessions | July 13 – Aug 31

July 13, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

$505 – $535
Online, N/A, Portland, OR 97207

Apps due July 8

One of the things I feel Poets Studio participants, regardless of experience and skill, can benefit from, is an extended concentration on only a few pieces over a couple months. That’s my goal for the Summer Sessions, which would progress as follows:

Sessions 1-3: Making. We’ll start from scratch on a few poems, developing strategies of imagination, research, trial and error, and writing several “test” drafts over several weeks.

Sessions 4-6: Noticing. Here we’ll begin to be attentive to what might be possible with various drafts of poems, in the writing process — noticing what they are doing and not doing, what they are implying and avoiding, and what they are potentially able to become, and what they can’t ever become (but might as well try it out to find out for sure), as we make more and more drafts.

Sessions 7-9: Changing. Someone else, not me, would call these last three sessions, Revision. The goal of the last three sessions is to continue making changes, narrowing the possibilities, all the way until your poem or poems are “finished.”

My hope is that, after the nine Summer Sessions, you’ll have freshly experienced a process of writing, including writing together each week during Poets Studio on Monday nights (and Sunday afternoons), that gives you new tools, skills, and patience for writing your poems. The goal of the summer is for everyone to finish 2-3 brand new poems, while we’re all in conversation with each other, crafted during the Summer Sessions, and then to prepare these, as you see fit, to submit for publication in the fall.

To apply: Email six poems and a 100+ word description of your experience writing poems over the last five years.

Poets Studio: Summer Sessions (9 sessions): Monday studio meet 5:30-8pm (Pacific Time) / Sunday sudio meets 2-4:30pm (Pacific Time)

Monday July 13

Monday July 20

Monday July 27

Monday Aug 3: No class

Monday Aug 10

SUNDAY Aug 16

Monday Aug 17

Monday Aug 24

SUNDAY Aug 30

Monday Aug 31

Apply to Poets Studio by July 8

Teacher:
Time:
Jul 13 – Aug 31, 5:30-8pm (Pacific Time) / Sunday sudio meets 2-4:30pm (Pacific Time), 9 sessions
Location:
Zoom | Online Workshop
Total Fee:
Discounted Early Registration is due seven (7) days prior to the start of the workshop. | Discounted Early Registration: $505 (cash/check); $520 (Paypal). | Tuition Registration: $520 (cash/check); $535 (PayPal).

Details

Date:
July 13, 2020
Time:
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
$505 – $535
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http://atticinstitute.com/node/2521

Venue

Online
N/A
Portland, OR 97207

Organizer

Attic Institute
Phone:
503-236-0615
Website:
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