Creating Your Collection: A 4-week Generative Poetry Course
In this 4-week course, you can expect to create a coherent, genuine poetry collection that reflects your authentic poetic expression. You will be guided to assemble your collection using your already written poetic works as well as writing generated in each 90-min session.
During each session, you will:
-reflect on written poetry currently existing in your journals, documents, folders, and notes
-write new poetry
-share your poetry with your course-mates & receive valuable feedback
According to the theme of the given week, you will move, as a group, through the process of assembling your poetry collection. If you’ve never collated a collection of poems and/or prose, bring your treasured writing, let’s tell your story through this meaningful and rewarding project. If you’re currently working on a collection, bring your existing project, let’s refine your material and strengthen your storytelling.
And in all, let’s co-create a space of genuine authentic creative expression, where we are free to write from the soul and be received by other writers – our kin in creativity, our tribe.
Registration includes a complimentary 45-min 1-1 writing coaching session (to be used by August 9th).
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Sessions meet on Wednesdays or Fridays from 5-6:30 PST/ 8-9:30 EST.
Wednesdays – July 17, July 24, July 31, August 7
Fridays – July 19, July 26, August 2, August 9
For any weeks you can’t join your chosen day, you may join the other day to stay on pace with the material, or follow along with the recording.
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Week 1 – Selecting the poetry
Lean into the chaos and listen to the heart & body. During this week, we identify the story we hope for the collection to convey and practice creative authority in poetry selection.
Week 2 – Assembling the collection
Storytelling is only storytelling with a trajectory. During this week, we learn how our selected poems communicate with each other, and how they nourish the larger story.
Week 3 – Edits and additions
Your collection is a live and organic creature. As this course includes generative writing instruction, during this week, we learn the art of meaningful pruning and seeding for the overall flourishing of the collection.
Week 4 – Self-publishing and cultivating readership
A more pragmatic week, we learn the details of self-publishing through Amazon, draft verbiage about the collection itself through reflections generated in the previous weeks, and discuss building organic and authentic readership for your writing at large.
