Instructor: Mark Doty
Tuesday - Friday
September 8 - 11
9am - 1pm
4 sessions
This is a workshop group for poets who'd like to take their work further -- inviting complexity, courting the difficult, unsettling the known. We'll read provocative contemporary poems and pursue a related sequence of writing exercises in order to practice opening poems to new depths. Open to poets at any level of experience; all you need are writing implements, good spirits and a little nerve.
Mark Doty is the author of nine books of poems, including Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award for poetry in 2008. He’s also the author of five books of nonfiction prose, including What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life (Norton, 2020) He lives in the Hudson River Valley.
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