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Martha Rhodes Guiding Your Reader Across & Down the Page: Poetry Workshop – LIVE Poetry November 28 to December 2, 2022 Tuition: $575.00 Class Size: 12 Session: fall Level: virtual LIVE 1 week workshop

LIVE via ZOOM: 4-6pm (Eastern)

Our week together will focus on how we can help our readers navigate our poems through choices we make regarding stanza formation, line endings, punctuation, titling, syntax, diction, inflection, etc. Each member will present their own poems for discussion. The workshop will run at least 2 hours or up to 3 hours, depending on the size of the group. Discussions and exercises will focus on revision strategies of the poems under discussion and strategies to generate new work as well.

Biography

Martha Rhodes is author of five poetry collections, most recently The Thin Wall (2017, University of Pittsburgh. As director of Four Way Books, she has published such authors as Reginald Dwayne Betts, Andrea Cohen, Cynthia Cruz, Yona Harvey, John Murillo, and Gregory Pardlo. She teaches in the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College and at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in NYC.