2025 Summer Workshop Program
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Half the time when we’re beginning something it’s already ending. Or. We’re anticipating its ending. And then we begin again. How rewarding. How frustrating. Isn’t it just like a poem to keep meeting us and leaving us? End stop. Line break. Breath pause. What a gift.
In this workshop, we will spend a week in the classroom and out of doors thinking into how poems begin and end and keep going past the page into something like a book, a practice, the next single poem. We will think of beginnings and endings in a formal sense, through various craft exercises. We’ll immerse ourselves in the transformative light and cycles of a week in Provincetown to help us consider the endings and beginnings of our own practice. What is Writer’s Block? Is it a beginning as much as it can feel like the end? What does it mean for a poem to “End”? What’s a first line anyway?
This is a workshop where, I hope, you will leave with many months worth of poems and a new portal into your practice. We will make and make and make. We’ll share our poems with each other but we won’t workshop in a traditional sense. You are welcome wherever you’re at. We’re all beginning and ending and beginning again.
Biography
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart; Apocalyptic Swing, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize; and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry, The New Economy, will be released in the fall of 2025 from Copper Canyon Press.
