Offerings
Saturday Sprints with Martha Collins – LIVE Martha Collins
Poetry
November 5, 2022
Open to All Levels
Tiered Tuition
$0-$0
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About the Offering

A Handful of Quick Starts

LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern)

This workshop will begin with a very short brainstorming exercise to help you identify or refine subjects you’d like to address in poems, including “difficult” subjects you may have been anxious or uncomfortable about pursuing. The remainder of the three-hour session will offer you a handful of poetic strategies, each including a brief discussion of several published poems and a prompt that will help to get you started on a poem of your own, perhaps drawing on the one of the subjects you’ve just defined. You’ll have 5-10 minutes to explore each strategy, each of which will give you the beginning of a poem you might finish at home. There will be time for you to ask questions via the chat box during and at the end of the workshop.

Saturday Sprints are 3 hour generative workshops with stellar writers, centered on a theme.

Workshops are limited to 25 participants.

About the Instructor/Moderator

Martha Collins has published eleven books of poetry, most recently Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh, 2022) and Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019); the latter won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. She has also co-translated five volumes of Vietnamese poetry, most recently Dreaming the Mountain by Tuệ Sỹ, with Nguyen Ba Chung (Milkweed, 2023), and co-edited, with Kevin Prufer, Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries (Graywolf, 2017). Collins founded the UMASS Boston creative writing program and for ten years served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin.

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