Mark Doty
Four-day Workshop
Opening Up the Poem
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 6 - Saturday, May 9 | 9 a.m. - noon

MDC, Wolfson Campus

Developing poets often stop too soon, completing their poems before they’ve investigated the complexities and potentiality of their material. This workshop is designed to help poets open up their poems by practicing strategies for extension. We’ll be reading poems together, doing some in-class writing, and talking about how to extend our reach. Limited to 15 students.

Facilitator
The 2008 National Book Award winner for Poetry, Mark Doty, is the author of six books of poems, including the collection, Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. Among his many awards are Great Britain’s T.S. Eliot Prize, the Los Angeles Time Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the recipient of two NEA fellowships, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, among other prizes.

Date and Time
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 6 - Saturday, May 9 | 9 a.m. - noon

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.