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 four poetry books, most recently So Much Synth and Our Andromeda. Her other books are Human Dark with Sugar and Interior with Sudden Joy. Her poems appeared in Best American Poetry, Harpers, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Poetry, and elsewhere. She’s a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, and teaches at Rutgers University-Newark.
