Imposter Monster: Poetry For Beginners (Five Week Poetry Seminar)
1.00 - 250.00
Are you new to the study of poetry? Maybe you think it’s all rhyme and meter, you have a bad taste in your mouth from grade school, or you’ve always been poetry-curious but a little too afraid to try. This workshop is for you! We will take a look at our own individual ideas of what poetry is (versus the industry or academy); the basics of poetry (line, white space, what rhyme and meter have historically been used for); and how you might redefine your own relationship to poetic writing. Online, via Zoom, every Monday from 4-5:30 pm PST. (5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24, 5/31).
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July Westhale
writer, educator, translator
"I was wholly unprepared for the exceptional skill and aesthetic courage I encountered when I opened the book, skill and courage that remained from the first line to the last. It is so much easier to perform rather than to be honest."
—Robin Coste Lewis, National Book Award winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus.
"July Westhale’s poetry seems accompanied with a tuning fork’s pitch, a heightened, pressing, weaponized immediacy. Whatever she faced to earn that ability would have killed a lesser mortal, we can be sure."
Trailer Trash by July Westhale, Booklist
"Poetry is an art form that is often considered inaccessible, canonical, academic. While it can be all of those things, it can also be hymnal—a kind of homage to the sorts of people whose stories don’t get written and remembered in any other way.