This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to 4 poems a week in response to assignments and prompts, with weekly themes. Comments on one another’s poems will be limited to one poem per week unless you’d like to comment on more. The workshop promises to stretch the boundaries of your imagination, silence your internal editor and help you establish a writing routine. Students who have completed similar types of “extreme” generative workshops find that exhaustion allows them to be open, quick, and intuitive. Many of your poems will be silly, terrible, unfinished and sloppy. Many will be terrific drafts. This workshop will change your writing habits.

LIVE ELEMENTS: Students can join an optional welcome session on the first day of class, held on Zoom.
During the third week of class, the instructor will hold individual Zoom conferences with students to discuss their poems.