Workshop: The Heart of the Book: A Poetry Manuscript Intensive with Dorothea Lasky
Workshop: The Heart of the Book: A Poetry Manuscript Intensive with Dorothea Lasky
10 Sessions: Thursdays, September 11 - December 4
Plus: 2 individual 1-hour-long meetings with the instructor
5:00-8:00pm ET
Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky has over 25 years of experience teaching writing. She has taught an intensive graduate course on creating a poetry manuscript for over a decade.
In this class, you will create the poetry book of your dreams. During group workshops and individual meetings, we will consider how poetry books are constructed by looking at published books and class members’ work. We will work closely together, as you receive feedback on several drafts of your poetry manuscript. In these meetings, we will consider issues of persona, style, titling, organization, and poetics. Generative prompts will be given each session to help facilitate the growth of your book. At the end of the class, you will have a book of 40-50 pages of poems that you will feel excited about.
Workshop Highlights:
Getting both individual and group feedback on your book and ideas
Reading several poetry books and thinking about their structure
Leaving the class with a manuscript of poems
(Note: No class on October 2, November 6, and November 27)
Dorothea Lasky is the author of six full-length collections of poetry including The Shining, Milk, Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, all out from Wave Books, as well as Rome (Liveright/W.W. Norton). She is also the author of the essay collections, Animal (Wave Books) and the forthcoming MEMORY (Semiotext(e)). She has written several chapbooks, including: Snakes (Tungsten Press), Matter: A Picturebook(Argos Books), and Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse), among others. She is the editor of Essays (Essay Press) and the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry(McSweeney's).
Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, POETRY, The New Yorker, Tin House, and The Paris Review, among other places. She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's, 2013) and was a 2013 Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry. Currently, she's an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts.