Poetry Workshop with Dorothea Lasky
Poetry Workshop with Dorothea Lasky
6 Sessions: Wednesdays, July 9 - August 13
5:00-7:00pm ET
Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky is the author of many books of poetry and prose, including The Shining and the forthcoming Mother. She has taught poetry workshops and arts-related classes for over 25 years.
This is a workshop class, aimed at helping you become the poet you want to be. By the end of the class, you will complete a manuscript of poems of 10 poems that you feel excited about. We will write poems, read poems, discuss poetry and most importantly, give each other feedback on our work. The goal of the class is to evolve into your best poet self.
Class activities include: writing poems from prompts, workshopping poems, and discussing poems brought in by the instructor and class members.
Workshop Highlights:
Get feedback on your work
Read and discuss poetry
Write new poems from class prompts
This class has 1 partial scholarship available. To apply, please fill out this form by Monday, June 30.
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.
