Two-time United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser and renowned poet and memoirist Mary Karr invite you to this extraordinary opportunity to create poems and to practice your skills at revising them.
We begin with creative exercises so that everyone has the chance to revise with guidance a poem created in class or one brought from home in need of polish. Kooser and Karr help us peel away the layers of the poetic process as we discuss and discover what is required for the craft.
Whatever your experience in writing poetry, you'll discover new dimensions of your poem as the community of poets in the workshop brings to bear the goals of poetry and its effects.
Ted Kooser has published 11 full-length collections of poetry, most recently Delights and Shadows, which was the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He is also the author of The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets. Kooser is the winner of the Pushcart Prize and the Stanley Kunitz Prize.
Spitfire poet and memoirist Mary Karr won prizes from Best American Poetry and Pushcart. Best known for her first memoir, The Liars' Club, which won the PEN Martha Albrand Award, she has written four books of poems, including Sinners Welcome, forthcoming this year. |
