Fearless Poetry Workshop

Description

This workshop is intended for people who want to jump start their poetry practice and to keep the engine oiled. You’ll do plenty of writing and reading, and have lively discussions about both the craft and the process of poetry.

The weekly homework assignments (workshopped the following week) are designed to provide fresh angles of approach that can surprise, even startle, both the writer and his/her readers. "We all get stuck in ruts," Julie says, "and the class offers ways of digging ourselves out, whether we use these strategies to simply get started at writing or to revise a particularly challenging poem."

The class is suitable for a wide spectrum of people. "We've had students with an interest in poetry but no experience writing it, and others with MFA's from Iowa, and it's always been a good mix", says Julie. "The focus of the class is generative--to get everybody going and excited about doing new work, to take away strategies that can help with their current and future writing--and to have a great time while we're at it."

Julie Bruck has taught at several Canadian universities, and was a resident faculty member at The Robert Frost Place. She has an MFA from Warren Wilson, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and the Canada Council. She has published three collections, The Woman Downstairs (1993) The End of Travel (1999), and Monkey Ranch (2012). Her work has appeared in many Canadian and U.S. magazines, including The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Ms. A Montreal native, she has lived in San Francisco since 1997.

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