Poetry Writing Project Specifics
Led by Gretchen Marquette
The time has come to gather and assemble your work. Individual poems that stand alone can, with purposeful ordering, also reinforce and illuminate each other. In this year-long Poetry Project, you’ll find what anchors and grounds your collection, you’ll cultivate your gut feeling for a satisfying and strategic arc, and you will discover and articulate your work’s primary concerns. You’ll also discover how your collection stands in conversation with other good work being done in contemporary poetry today.
Cohort Meetings
In addition to class meetings, over the course of the year long program, each participant will have one-to-one meetings with Gretchen to consult on individual poetry collections. Scheduled class meetings will take place:
Winter/Spring Term:
Tuesday Evenings, 6–9 p.m.; January 28–April 14, 2020
Summer Meetings:
Saturdays: June 20, July 18, August 15, 2020, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Fall/Winter Term:
Tuesday Evenings, 6–9 p.m.; September 15–December 8, 2020 (no class November 24)
Final reading:
Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 7 p.m., in the Performance Hall at Open Book
Poetry Writing Project books:
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay
Like a Beggar by Ellen Bass
Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke
Diván del Tamarit by Federico Garcia Lorca
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
Quiver of Arrows by Carl Phillips
I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman by Jude Nutter
Narrow Road to the Interior by Kimiko Hahn
Haiku by Richard Wright
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Books by Guest Authors:
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
In the Shadow Country by Elena Cisneros
A Bony Framework for the Tangible Universe by D. Allen
Underground by Jim Moore
Catrachos by Roy Guzmán