My UCLA Extension Intermediate Poetry Workshop Starts Jan. 21st. There are still a few open spots. Hope to see you there.
Intermediate Poetry Workshop
For those with some previous training in poetry,
this workshop focuses on creating work
which emphasizes lyrical and innovative language,
personal insight, and individual voice. In
addition, you refine your knowledge of a
number of the craft's formal elements, including
structure, imagery, metaphor, and pace, in order
to stretch the boundaries of your creative
experience. The goal is to produce a small body of work which is ambitious and resonant.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Poetry Reading
I'm reading at Beyond Baroque in the Mike Kelley Gallery on Dec. 12, 8pm, with three other wonderful poets –– Shivani Mehta,
Richard Garcia & Katherine Williams. It'll be wonderful, at least they'll be wonderful, I'll be okay. Hope you can make it.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Online Poetry Class Begins Next Week
I'm teaching an online poetry class for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program.
Here's the info:
Creative Writing: Poetry
XL 136 English 5 units c
Available for UCLA transferable credit, this workshop combines writing assignments with an exploration of contemporary poetry. You look at forms ranging from the sonnet to prose poems, and develop your own voice. Each week the work of a contemporary poet is discussed and writing assignments are critiqued. The course goal is to finish with a number of polished and completed poems and understand the demands and rewards of living an inspired life through poetry. For technical requirements see page 4. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Reg# 249985CA
Here's the info:
Creative Writing: Poetry
XL 136 English 5 units c
Available for UCLA transferable credit, this workshop combines writing assignments with an exploration of contemporary poetry. You look at forms ranging from the sonnet to prose poems, and develop your own voice. Each week the work of a contemporary poet is discussed and writing assignments are critiqued. The course goal is to finish with a number of polished and completed poems and understand the demands and rewards of living an inspired life through poetry. For technical requirements see page 4. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Reg# 249985CA
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Poems from The Sounthern Review
The Southern Review put two of my poems on Soundcloud.
Unfortunately, it's me doing the reading: https://soundcloud.com/lsupress_and_tsr/we-and-the-accordion-players …
SoundCloud
Sunday, February 9, 2014
New Book Coming Out
My next book, I'm No Longer Troubled By the Extravagance, will be published by BOA next year!
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Prose Poem workshop filled up!
My one day prose poem workshop at UCLA Extension, 2/1/14, is now filled. It's gonna be fun. I'll be teaching an online class for them in the spring. Hope some of you are interested. You can be in Moscow, Russia, or Rhode Island and take the class!
Monday, November 25, 2013
ADVICE
"Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line."
THEODORE ROETHKE
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