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Writers Workshops

POETRY 2016-310

Course #2016-310
Mondays Starting September 12 6:00 pm–9:00 pm running 10 weeks
Cost: $345 Instructor: Elizabeth Lyons
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Where

Inprint House
1520 W Main St
Houston, TX 77006 United States
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“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”—Robert Frost


In this workshop, we will focus on the balance of specificity and surprise that drives poetry. As a class we’ll consider the following: how does a poem evolve, and how does it evolve for me as the writer?  We will read contemporary poets to learn and shape our own sense of individual voice and deepen our sense of poetic draft. This class uses the writer’s workshop method: participants will write original poetry, bring in their finished drafts for feedback from their peers, and then approach revisions of their work. As a class, we will also participate in short writing exercises weekly. These experiments in voice, structure and form will then be used to spark class discussion and to assist you with creating new work. The goal of this class is to help you become a more nuanced writer, using the collaborative and dynamic setting of the writer’s workshop.


About the instructor

ELIZABETH LYONS holds a PhD from the UH Creative Writing Program, where she received an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship and served as a senior nonfiction editor for Gulf Coast. A recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and I-Park, she holds an MFA from Purdue University and a BA in English from the College of Charleston. Her first book, The Blessing of Dark Water, is forthcoming from Alice James Books. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Salt Hill, Indiana Review, and others. Elizabeth works as a writer and editor in Houston.

By registering for an Inprint Writers Workshop you are agreeing to Inprint’s registration policies. Remember to sign up for the waiting list if the workshop you would like to take is full. To see the full Fall 2016 workshop schedule click here.

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