Craft Seminar: How To Write Your Own Diary Poem with Craig Morgan Teicher
Craft Seminar: How To Write Your Own Diary Poem with Craig Morgan Teicher
1 Session: Sunday, February 21
1:00-3:00pm ET
Craig Morgan Teicher
This craft seminar will be taught be Craig Morgan Teicher, who is the author of four books of poems, including August, September, October, which contains two diary poems.
If you really want to keep people from reading your diary, put it in a poem—nobody reads those. Just kidding, sorta. Ever since I first read A.R. Ammons’ book-length poem “Tape for the Turn of the Year,” a diary written on the whole length of a roll of calculator tape, I’ve written diary poems to mark and move through major shifts in my life. The diary poem is an amazing and elastic form, able to accommodate all sorts of poetry and poetic materials, shapes, and tones that aren’t available in plain old lyric poems.
In this class, students will examine and discuss exemplary diary poems by A.R. Ammons and Victoria Chang, write their first entry in their own diary poems, and leave class with a seven-day writing exercise that will prompt them to complete their poem.
Highlights:
Learn about a vibrant and flexible hybrid poetic form
Expand your sense of what a poem can be and include
Write a long poem in one week!
This class has 1 scholarship available. To apply, please fill out this form by Friday, February 12.
Poet and literary critic Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of four books of poems, The Trembling Answers (BOA, 2017), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, 2012), and Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, (CLP, 2007), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. His latest collection is Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey, forthcoming from BOA in April 2021. He also wrote Cradle Book: Stories and Fables (BOA, 2010) and the chapbook Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, 2014). His first collection of essays, We Begin in Gladness: How Poets Progress, will be published by Graywolf in November 2018.
Teicher edited Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (New Directions, 2016) and serves as a poetry editor for The Literary Review. He writes about books for many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, and NPR.
