Carolyn Forché
Four-day Workshop
Open Poetry: A Workshop On Writing in New Modes
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5 - Saturday, May 8 | 9 a.m. to noon

MDC, Wolfson Campus

In this workshop, we will be introduced to different poetic modes, including the lyric, meditative, elegiac, epistolary (letter writing) and ekphrastic (writing in response to a work of art). These “modes” involve considerations of form, structure and tone. We’ll try new poems in these different modes, inspired by exercises, and learn new methods for opening them up, extending and revising, using methods I like to call “experimental revision.” This workshop is for poets who wish to stretch a little and try new forms of writing and a different approach to critique.

Facilitator
Carolyn Forché is an award-winning author of four books of poetry, Gathering The Tribes, The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour.  Her articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Esquire, Mother Jones, and others. The recipient of three fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, Forché is the Lannan Visiting Professor of Poetry and Professor of English at Georgetown University.

Date and Time
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5- Saturday, May 8 | 9 a.m. to noon

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