This workshop is full. 

Robert Pinsky notes: “Any moment, any person’s idea at any one moment, any artifact, if you could understand it well enough, would be a portal into the whole rest of the universe.” In this course, we will explore how we might find the universal in the specific, and how, then, to best articulate those moments such that our audience identifies with them. Also, we will look to a variety of published work for examples of successful ways of achieving this process, as well as the fundamentals of prose writing. The essay, perhaps more so than any other genre, is a malleable, adaptable form. We will examine how many forms of creative nonfiction, whether reportorial or lyric, can shine the light of intrigue on personal subjects.