Workshop: The Heart of the Poem with Dorothea Lasky
Workshop: The Heart of the Poem with Dorothea Lasky
6 Sessions: Sundays, January 11 - February 15
3:00-6:00pm ET
Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky has over 25 years of experience teaching writing and a doctorate in fostering creativity. She has led hundreds of poetry workshops and has taught an intensive graduate course on creating a poetry manuscript for over a decade.
During weekly group workshops, we will work closely together and write our best poems. We will consider how poems are constructed by analyzing poems by class members and others, including poems by Catullus, Cornelius Eady, Bhanu Kapil, John Keats, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Sylvia Plath.
As a student, you will receive intensive feedback from both the instructor and your peers, in order to help your poems grow. Some of these topics of critique may include: voice, persona, style, titling, organization, meaning, audience, and poetics. Generative prompts will be given each session to help facilitate your work. At the end of the class, you will walk away with a batch of workshopped poems you can 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
This class has 2 partial scholarships. To apply, please fill out this form by Friday, January 2.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of eight full-length collections of poetry including the forthcoming MOTHER, 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 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, POETRY, The New Yorker, 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.