Summer Workshop Program 2024
Our new Tiered Tuition System asks you to choose one of the following tuition levels:
$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
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This poetry workshop focuses its attention on a body of work you are creating. Perhaps you have the foundation for a chapbook or a collection, or perhaps you are finding shape for a handful of poems from which you can view their collective shine. Whether you’ve been separated from your craft for some time or have been actively writing for years, this workshop will offer uninterrupted time for supreme devotion to the art through generative writing prompts and unconditional support. We’ll examine the spectrum of contemporary forms and techniques of established poets and the motivating ideas behind your own work. Step by step, participants will build toward a more fully realized vision with the mentorship of the instructor and the affirming community we build together.
Please come with a poem that is representative of your work to the first day of class. Enough copies for the entire class and the teacher. 12 pt font and maximum 2 pages.
Biography
Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of seven poetry collections, including Tanya, The Octopus Museum, Our Andromeda, and Liquid Flesh: New and Selected Poems. Her poems, interviews, and criticism have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Yale Review, the Village Voice, the New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. She's received a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a Radcliffe fellowship. Currently, she's completing work as the author/librettist on an opera, Sensorium Ex, which will premiere in May 2025 at the Common Senses Festival in Omaha, Nebraska. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark and lives in West Orange, New Jersey.
