In this workshop we will pay special attention to the experiences and impulses that demand expression through poetry. What we are interested in is surprise—how to create it and stay out of its way—and to that end we will be especially mindful of the brief life of the poem, the music of blank space on the page, and the immediacy of metaphor. Workshop participants will read poets such as Lucille Clifton, Alicia Ostriker, Eduardo Corral, and Mary Ruefle, both for inspiration and to deepen our understanding of craft. Most importantly, we will write. Finished drafts of poems will be discussed with an emphasis on constructive, positive feedback, in a supportive environment that includes individual attention and group interaction. In this sense, the workshop will be heavily focused on generating energetic new poems while better understanding the depths, range, and wild possibilities of your voice.
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Writers Workshops
POETRY 2016-209
About the instructor
JOSHUA GOTTLIEB-MILLER received his MFA from the UH Creative Writing Program, where he served as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast and was awarded an Inprint Barthelme Prize in Poetry and an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship. His work has appeared in Pleiades, The Ilanot Review, Radar, Blackbird, and elsewhere; his poem, “The Sublime,” won the Indiana Review 2012 Poetry Prize, judged by Dean Young. Most recently he was a fellow at The MacDowell Colony.
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