Beguiled & Bewildered: A Generative Poetry Workshop

$99.00

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In her essay, “Bewilderment,” poet and writer Fanny Howe crafts an essay that is equal parts beguiling and bewildering. In it, she positions bewilderment “as a way of entering the day as much as the work.”

In this workshop, through close engagement with Howe’s essay and example poems, you will examine what it means to write bewildering poetry: how can you step outside our comfort zones to compose poems that confound and dazzle? What happens when you “lie down in mystery?”

Through reading, conversation, and generative writing exercises, you will enter “the roundness of dreaming” and draft new poems. You’ll be invited to push yourself as a writer, writing in ways that may feel unfamiliar or uncomfortable, but that will nurture your development as a writer and reader of poetry.

Shortly after you Add to Cart, you will receive an email containing an invitation to create an account and begin learning. Note: This class does not include feedback or interaction with the instructor or other learners, and is accessible for thirty days. If more time is needed, just contact us.

👉 This workshop now lives at the Academy of Intentional Magic. View offering→

In her essay, “Bewilderment,” poet and writer Fanny Howe crafts an essay that is equal parts beguiling and bewildering. In it, she positions bewilderment “as a way of entering the day as much as the work.”

In this workshop, through close engagement with Howe’s essay and example poems, you will examine what it means to write bewildering poetry: how can you step outside our comfort zones to compose poems that confound and dazzle? What happens when you “lie down in mystery?”

Through reading, conversation, and generative writing exercises, you will enter “the roundness of dreaming” and draft new poems. You’ll be invited to push yourself as a writer, writing in ways that may feel unfamiliar or uncomfortable, but that will nurture your development as a writer and reader of poetry.

Shortly after you Add to Cart, you will receive an email containing an invitation to create an account and begin learning. Note: This class does not include feedback or interaction with the instructor or other learners, and is accessible for thirty days. If more time is needed, just contact us.

 

Teaching Artist

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Amie Whittemore

Amie Whittemore is the author of the poetry collection Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press) and co-founder of the Charlottesville Reading Series in Virginia. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Sycamore Review, Smartish Pace, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. She teaches English at Middle Tennessee State University.