Offerings
Taming the Beast: Assembling Your Poetry Collection Sandra Beasley
Poetry
July 12 to August 6, 2021
Open to All Levels
Tiered Tuition
$0-$0
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About the Offering

ASYNCHRONOUS

Are you proud of individual poems, but daunted by putting together a whole manuscript? This class, which can be used for chapbook or full-length collections, takes an approach that balances craft and pragmatics. In Week One, we will help you distill a sense of your book’s working “meta-text”—meaning, all the various cues you are giving readers and potential editors through titles, epigraphs, and ordering. In Week 2, you’ll receive a close reading and line edits for two opening poems; in Week 3, for two closing poems. In Week 4 we’ll return to big-picture questions by revisiting your title and table of contents, identifying different paths to publication, and sharing resources for what comes next.

About the Instructor/Moderator

Sandra Beasley is the author of Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a disability memoir. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Virginia Quarterly Review, Creative Nonfiction, LitHub, and A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays. She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Made to Explode, which won the Housatonic Book Award, and she edited Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance. Honors include the Munster Literature Centre’s John Montague Fellowship, an NEA fellowship, and six DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities fellowships.

 

 

 

 

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