A 1-Day Poetry Workshop
Saturday, March 8, 10 AM - 1 PM
Lyric poetry, conventionally speaking, is far less interested in “what happened” than “how something felt”; when crafted effectively, it enacts “the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions” and allows readers access to that experience, that feeling. In this course, we’ll examine some of the how a lyric says and what it says without saying, or saying less. And we’ll consider craft techniques we might deploy in our own little lyrics. Participants may expect to read work by Charles Wright, Spencer Reece, Tommye Blount, Vievee Francis, and Linda Gregg, among others.
$90 Members/$135 Nonmembers
Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and Previously Owned (Four Way Books, 2022), a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Green Mountains Review, Zocalo Public Square, The Critical Flame, and On The Seawall, among others. He teaches at Hampshire College and serves as Poetry Editor for The Massachusetts Review.
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