Poetry
July 18-22, 2022
Open to All
Tiered Tuition
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“In a poem, one line may hide another line,/ As at a crossing, one train may hide another train.”
—Kenneth Koch
So often one poem may hide another poem. To allow ourselves us to be open means saying the unsayable. It is a brave and courageous act to write our truths, to say the difficult thing, to put aside whatever holds us back and take our poems to the next level. Only then can we spark language that lifts off the page. This generative workshop encourages participants to write and revise poems based on readings, writing prompts, and guided discussions that answer the question “What are we risking in our poems?” We will also touch upon revision and the publication process.
January Gill O'Neil
is a professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. Glitter Road won the 2024 Poetry by the Sea Best Book Award and the Julia Ward Howe Prize in poetry from the Boston Authors Club; was a finalist for the New England Book Award, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and the Julie Suk Award; and is finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award. From 2012 to 2018, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Sierra, and more. Her poem “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial” won a 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O’Neil was the 2019–2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, and chairs the AWP Board of Directors (2022–2025).
