Break Your Poem

with Lauren Davis

Genres: Poetry

Online

Intermediate

1 Session

Start Date: July 23, 2023
End Date: July 23, 2023
Day of Week: Sunday
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm PT
Capacity: 15 seats
Member Price: $81.00
General Price: $90.00

You've written something that you love. But what if there is more to discover about it? Can you let go and break your poem? Through a series of deconstructing exercises, we will dismantle our darling drafts to see if there is anything else they want to tell us. Please bring one or two poetry drafts that you are willing to disrupt.

Registration dates:

June 5: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)

June 6: Member registration opens

June 13: General registration opens

Lauren Davis

Lauren Davis

Lauren Davis is the author of The Milk of Dead Mothers (YesYes Books, forthcoming), and the poetry collections Home Beneath the Church (Fernwood Press) and When I Drowned (Aldrich Press). She holds an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars.

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