Portraits & Personas: A Generative Poetry Workshop

$99.00

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Poets often push the boundaries of language and imagination in their work, examining both the self and others. But how do we do this with sensitivity and insight? How do we write about ourselves without navel-gazing? How do we write in other voices without appropriating others’ lives?

In this four module, self-paced workshop, you will explore these tough questions through serious play, by discussing example self-portrait and persona poems and experimenting with writing prompts that will encourage poets to write about themselves and others with verve and precision. 

Shortly after you enroll, 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→

Poets often push the boundaries of language and imagination in their work, examining both the self and others. But how do we do this with sensitivity and insight? How do we write about ourselves without navel-gazing? How do we write in other voices without appropriating others’ lives?

In this four module, self-paced workshop, you will explore these tough questions through serious play, by discussing example self-portrait and persona poems and experimenting with writing prompts that will encourage poets to write about themselves and others with verve and precision. 

Shortly after you enroll, 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 (she/her) is the author of the poetry collections Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press), Star-tent: A Triptych (Tolsun Books), and Nest of Matches (Autumn House, 2024). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her poems and prose have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Nashville Review, Smartish Pace, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She is the Reviews Editor for Southern Indiana Review and teaches English at Middle Tennessee State University, where she directs MTSU Write, a from-home creative writing mentorship program.