ASYNCHRONOUS

Are you proud of individual poems, but daunted by putting together a whole manuscript? This class, which can be used for chapbook or full-length collections, takes an approach that balances craft and pragmatics. In Week One, we will help you distill a sense of your book’s working “meta-text”—meaning, all the various cues you are giving readers and potential editors through titles, epigraphs, and ordering. In Week 2, you’ll receive a close reading and line edits for two opening poems; in Week 3, for two closing poems. In Week 4 we’ll return to big-picture questions by revisiting your title and table of contents, identifying different paths to publication, and sharing resources for what comes next.