Class

Forge: a Craft Seminar with Hieu Minh Nguyen (Little Rooms—The Poetics of Inventory and Curation)

Long before the first line, the poem begins. In this generative writing seminar, we’ll explore the creative scaffolding that precedes drafting by studying how contemporary poets gather, shape, and transform the materials of their daily lives. Through close readings, we’ll borrow craft strategies from poems that welcome the world in, paying attention to how observation, image, association, and structure can reintroduce us to the world we thought we knew.

Through guided writing prompts and generative exercises we will bring these techniques into practice, experimenting with new ways of collecting fragments, following curiosities, and discovering poems hidden in our surroundings.

Poets of experience level welcome. This class reemphasizes process as a craft. Participants will leave with fresh drafts and fresh strategies for sustaining a creative practice.

Please submit this request form at least two to three weeks in advance if you have any accessibility requests for this class. This class takes place in-person, at the Loft at Open Book. Please see the Loft’s website for the most up to date information about the Loft’s COVID policies.