This workshop will consider the conscious and unconscious choices writers face regarding the structures and strategies of their poems. We will look closely at the way poems are made and organized and the manners in which their crafting affects the sense they make. The pace will be fast moving, the atmosphere lively, critical, helpful, supportive, and sometimes humorous. Bring 3 of your poems plus a poem you admire that accomplishes something you want to do in your own work, 17 copies of each.
STUART DISCHELL is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection (Viking 1993), Evenings & Avenues (Penguin 1996) Dig Safe (Penguin 2003) Backwards Days (Penguin 2007) and most recently, Children With Enemies (University of Chicago Press), the pamphlets Animate Earth and Touch Monkey, and the chapbook Standing on Z. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Agni, The New Republic, Slate, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies including Essential Poems, Hammer and Blaze, Pushcart Prize, and Good Poems. A recipient of awards from the NEA, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
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