A 10-Week Poetry Workshop
Tuesdays, February 16 - April 6, 6-9 PM
Part of the nature or soul of the lyric poem is the individual voice speaking out amid all the accumulative forces in the world. It’s essential that we have those voices. And yet, sometimes it can feel like the I becomes too present, even overbearing, or maybe we just get tired of ourselves in our poems and want to step outside and just be an Eye or an Aye. This workshop isn’t especially about writing without an I--it can be very necessary. Rather the hope is that we can try various ways to use the first-person pronoun and ways to write without it. The goal is to inhabit our poems in whatever way serves them best and allows us to engage with both the world around us and the world inside.
The workshop will include quick warm-up exercises, a discussion of sample poems and various artistic concerns, then a time to workshop each other’s poems.
$475 Members/$615 Nonmembers
Betsy Sholl’s tenth collection of poetry was As If a Song Could Save You (University of Wisconsin Press in fall of 2022). Her ninth collection of poetry was House of Sparrows: New and Selected Poems (University of Wisconsin, 2019), winner of the Four Lakes Prize. Other awards include a Maine Book Award for Poetry, The Felix Pollak Prize, the AWP Prize for Poetry, an NEA Fellowship. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of Fine Arts and served as Poet Laureate of Maine from 2006 to 2011. She was awarded the 2020 Distinguished Achievement Award from Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Maine in 2022.
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