1 Session: Saturday, August 1
11:00am-2:00pm ET
Craig Morgan Teicher

This craft seminar will be taught be Craig Morgan Teicher, who is the author of five books of poems. He also wrote Cradle Book: Stories and Fables (BOA, 2010) and the chapbook Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, 2014). His collection of essays, We Begin in Gladness: How Poets Progress, was published by Graywolf in 2018.

My teacher Lucie Brock-Broido used to advise us, in typically cryptic fashion, to "strike to the dark crystal" in our poems. That meant something like: aim for the pain, aim for the vulnerability. Sometimes, we're able to find that dark crystal in a first draft, but often we must dig it up in revision. In this one-day workshop, students will each present one poem that they are seeking to crack out of its shell. We will look for the places where the poem is protecting something, and we will try, in the most artful and compassionate manner, to reveal it.

Workshop Highlights:

• Students will learn new revision strategies

• Identify moments when poems run or hide from their subjects

• Workshop one new poem through lively discussion

This class has 2 scholarships available. To apply, please fill out this form by Friday, July 24.