12/11 Class - Creative Recycling: Making Good on Missed Opportunities in Our Discarded Drafts with Derek Pollard - $45/$36 For Members
Date: 12/11
Time: 10:00 am-noon PDT
Cost: $45/ $36 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
Ugh, this isn’t working! How many times have you found yourself saying that just before abandoning a draft you’ve been working on? This class is all about “creative recycling”: reconsidering the poems we really don’t want anyone else to see (I know, I totally have that folder, too) not as “failed attempts” but as poems we hadn’t been looking at in quite the right way. By exploring revision from an “outsider’s perspective”—wait, this 30-line poem is actually a haiku? for example—we’ll not only create several new drafts of 2-3 abandoned poems of yours, we’ll also reintroduce a sense of discovery and play—serious play—into your writing process.
Prior to class, you’ll want to select 2-3 poems of yours, as we’ll be engaging in a series of revision exercises that will require you to have previous writing on hand.
Your Instructor: Derek Pollard is editor of Till One Day the Sun Shall Shine More Brightly: The Poetry and Prose of Donald Revell, author of the poetry collection On the Verge of Something Bright and Good, and co-author with Derek Henderson of the poetry collection Inconsequentia. He currently serves as Series Editor for the Poets on Poetry Series, founded by Donald Hall and published by the University of Michigan Press. Previously, he served as Associate Editor at Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics; as Poetry and Nonfiction Editor at Witness; and as Associate Editor at New Issues Poetry & Prose.
Web: https://constellarcreative.com/about
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekpollard-phd
Poets on Poetry: https://www.press.umich.edu/browse/series/UM31
Date: 12/11
Time: 10:00 am-noon PDT
Cost: $45/ $36 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
Ugh, this isn’t working! How many times have you found yourself saying that just before abandoning a draft you’ve been working on? This class is all about “creative recycling”: reconsidering the poems we really don’t want anyone else to see (I know, I totally have that folder, too) not as “failed attempts” but as poems we hadn’t been looking at in quite the right way. By exploring revision from an “outsider’s perspective”—wait, this 30-line poem is actually a haiku? for example—we’ll not only create several new drafts of 2-3 abandoned poems of yours, we’ll also reintroduce a sense of discovery and play—serious play—into your writing process.
Prior to class, you’ll want to select 2-3 poems of yours, as we’ll be engaging in a series of revision exercises that will require you to have previous writing on hand.
Your Instructor: Derek Pollard is editor of Till One Day the Sun Shall Shine More Brightly: The Poetry and Prose of Donald Revell, author of the poetry collection On the Verge of Something Bright and Good, and co-author with Derek Henderson of the poetry collection Inconsequentia. He currently serves as Series Editor for the Poets on Poetry Series, founded by Donald Hall and published by the University of Michigan Press. Previously, he served as Associate Editor at Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics; as Poetry and Nonfiction Editor at Witness; and as Associate Editor at New Issues Poetry & Prose.
Web: https://constellarcreative.com/about
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekpollard-phd
Poets on Poetry: https://www.press.umich.edu/browse/series/UM31
Date: 12/11
Time: 10:00 am-noon PDT
Cost: $45/ $36 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
Ugh, this isn’t working! How many times have you found yourself saying that just before abandoning a draft you’ve been working on? This class is all about “creative recycling”: reconsidering the poems we really don’t want anyone else to see (I know, I totally have that folder, too) not as “failed attempts” but as poems we hadn’t been looking at in quite the right way. By exploring revision from an “outsider’s perspective”—wait, this 30-line poem is actually a haiku? for example—we’ll not only create several new drafts of 2-3 abandoned poems of yours, we’ll also reintroduce a sense of discovery and play—serious play—into your writing process.
Prior to class, you’ll want to select 2-3 poems of yours, as we’ll be engaging in a series of revision exercises that will require you to have previous writing on hand.
Your Instructor: Derek Pollard is editor of Till One Day the Sun Shall Shine More Brightly: The Poetry and Prose of Donald Revell, author of the poetry collection On the Verge of Something Bright and Good, and co-author with Derek Henderson of the poetry collection Inconsequentia. He currently serves as Series Editor for the Poets on Poetry Series, founded by Donald Hall and published by the University of Michigan Press. Previously, he served as Associate Editor at Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics; as Poetry and Nonfiction Editor at Witness; and as Associate Editor at New Issues Poetry & Prose.
Web: https://constellarcreative.com/about
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekpollard-phd
Poets on Poetry: https://www.press.umich.edu/browse/series/UM31