Poetry
October 10 to December 2, 2016
Open to All
Tiered Tuition
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About the Offering
With so many poetic and artistic influences circulating wildly in the modern world, it can be difficult to remain true to your own instinctual style and idiosyncratic voice. Because contemporary writers are continually inundated with exciting new styles and innovative voices, the need to find the quiet strength in your own work has never been more urgent. In this 8-week online poetry course, we will focus on what makes your poetry—and your specific voice—unique and powerful. We will read, listen, and watch poets—both classic and contemporary—whose work exemplifies artistic individuality, and discuss how a strong poetic personality can affect your connection with the audience. With new writing prompts each week, we’ll workshop new poems and offer supportive feedback designed to help you bring out what’s most essential in your own work. This class has been created to help you write the poems you were meant to write.
About the Instructor/Moderator
Ada Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limón is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a 2024 Time Magazine Woman of the Year. She is the author of two picture books, In Praise of Mystery as well as And, Too, The Fox, and was the editor of the anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. She served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, and her short-form non-fiction book Against Breaking: On The Power of Poetry, was released in 2026.
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