A 4-Week Online Poetry Workshop
Tuesdays, March 3 - 24, 6-9 PM
Among the most memorable and salient pieces of advice from author Toni Morrison’s documentary, The Pieces I Am, was, “People say to write about what you know. I’m here to tell you, no one wants to read that, ’cause you don’t know anything. So, write about something you don’t know.” In this 4-week generative writing workshop, we will do just that. Each week, we will deploy strategies and techniques that move us away from our comfortable writing patterns and tendencies and closer to greater surprise and discovery. Participants may read work from John Murillo, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Diane Seuss, David Baker, and Charles Wright, among others.
$180 Members/$300 Nonmembers
Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and Previously Owned (Four Way Books, 2022), a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Green Mountains Review, Zocalo Public Square, The Critical Flame, and On The Seawall, among others. He teaches at Hampshire College and serves as Poetry Editor for The Massachusetts Review.
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SCHOLARSHIP
The MWPA is proud to offer one partial scholarship to this workshop for members-only. Scholarships are awarded on a combination of need and merit. Application Due two weeks prior to the workshop start date, at 9:00 a.m.
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