Imposter Monster: A Poetry Workshop for Beginners (or Non-Poets)

We’ve moved online! All workshops will be conducted through Zoom, an interactive platform that allows you to participate in exercises and contribute to group conversation in your workshops. The day before your workshop you’ll receive an email with a link to Zoom for your workshop session. 

Member Price: $22
Deadline to Register: July 24, 5 pm
Instructor: July Westhale

Are you new to the study of poetry? Maybe you think it’s all rhyme and meter, you have a bad taste in your mouth from grade school, or you’ve always been poetry-curious but a little too afraid to try. This workshop is for you! In this mini-class, we will take a look at our own individual ideas of what poetry is (versus the industry or academy), basic foundations of poetry (line, white space, what rhyme and meter have historically been used for), and how you might redefine your own relationship to poetic writing. We will look at work by Joy Harjo, Linda Gregg, and Diane Seuss.