Poetry
August 23 to September 13, 2025
Open to All
Tiered Tuition
Reserve My Spot This offering is not currently available for registration. Please check back or email Jennifer Jean at jjean@fawc.org for any questions.
About the Offering
Saturdays from 10am-12pm (Eastern) on Aug 23rd and 30th, Sept 6th and 13th.
Whether you are looking for big picture feedback or line edits, this welcoming and supportive workshop is a chance to get fresh eyes and perspectives on your work. Poems you’ve worked on or created during your FAWC Summer Program workshops are welcome, along with older or newer work. We will also try a number of small revision-based craft exercises. These can be completed using the poems you choose to workshop, or other work you would like to reimagine.
Each week, you will be asked to submit a poem ahead of time to get feedback from the group. To prepare for each meeting, you will read each other’s pieces along with a small selection of contemporary poems.
This workshop is for attendees of FAWC’s Summer Program but will open to the general public if there’s room.
Materials Needed
No specific materials needed for this offering.
About the Instructor/Moderator
M.P. Carver is a poet and visual artist from Salem, MA. She is the Director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, a miCrO-Founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag, and a teacher of creative and digital writing at Salem State University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle, Mantis, Jubilat, Love’s Executive Order, and elsewhere. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Essex Community Foundation. In 2023 her poem "In Vitro" was named a finalist in the Connecticut River Review's Experimental Poetry Contest, and in 2022 her poem “You & God & I” was awarded the New England Poetry Club’s E.E. Cummings Prize. Her chapbook, Selachipmorpha, was published by Incessant Pipe in 2015, and her chapbook Hard Up is available now from Lily Poetry Review Books.
Accessibility Information
Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over 60 museums. Over the past fifteen years, they have built a sustainable career as a visual artist and have extensive experience working with museums, galleries, universities and nonprofit organizations, publishers, and press outlets. In addition to their own creative work, they are passionate about sharing the professional knowledge they’ve acquired throughout their career with other artists.
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