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The Poet's Journal (7PM-9PM EST)

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The Poet's Journal (7PM-9PM EST)

This is an online event.

Joining instructions will be provided after booking.

Course dates

  • Wed, 11 Aug '21   7pm – 9pm EDT - done
  • Wed, 18 Aug '21   7pm – 9pm EDT - done
  • Wed, 25 Aug '21   7pm – 9pm EDT - done
  • Wed, 1 Sep '21   7pm – 9pm EDT - done
  • Wed, 8 Sep '21   7pm – 9pm EDT - done
  • Wed, 15 Sep '21   7pm – 9pm EDT - done
  • Wed, 22 Sep '21   7pm – 9pm EDT - done
  • Wed, 29 Sep '21   7pm – 9pm EDT - done

Details

Instructor: Robert Whitehead

This workshop will be meeting online.

If a poem is the expression of an individual mind experiencing a particular moment, reading poetry can feel incredibly intimate—like being let in on a secret world.

In this course, we'll uncover the secret worlds each of us contain. We'll decipher our unique systems of language and map the patterns and images that chart our imagination. Through a series of exercises and prompts, each student will create their own "Poet's Journal"—a daily diary that will help us engage with our own interiority, and mine the secret world in all of us to find the raw material for poems.

To guide our explorations, we will read widely—poetry, essays, hybrid writing, translation, and more. Each class will include ample time for discussion as we work together to try to understand how poetry works. As a final assignment, each student will write their own "Ars Poetica," a type of poetic manifesto that seeks to define their personal relationship to poetry.

Each student will also have the opportunity to workshop 2-3 poems during this course, gaining valuable feedback and insight from a class of engaged readers.

Tickets

Cost

Full Tuition

Course ticket - for all 8 dates.
$560.00

Reduced Tuition I

Course ticket - for all 8 dates.
$480.00

Reduced Tuition II

Course ticket - for all 8 dates.
$400.00

Reduced Tuition III

Course ticket - for all 8 dates.
$320.00

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