How do you end your poems? In this generative writing workshop, participants will study how poets shape and explore poetic closure. We will study poems by diverse contemporary poets and use their poems as compasses and mentors for rethinking and re-envisioning alternative endings for the poems that we have written. Participants will also draw on the craft of other art forms and learn strategies for shaping an ending for that nothing-seems-to-work-for-it poem.
his Zoom workshop is open to writers at all levels, and limited to ten students. Please review the course policies page before registering for any class. The course fee is $150.00.
Please email Patrick Donnelly at pdonnelly@frostplace.org with any questions.
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About the Instructor
Janice N. Harrington’s latest book of poetry Yard Show (BOA Editions 2024) grows out of her three earlier books of poems, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, The Hands of Strangers, and Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. Harrington is also an award-winning children’s author, a Cave Canem fellow, and teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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