Drafting and Editing Poems [Sarah Galvin]

Want to get better at starting poems? Want to get better at refining drafts? This workshop on the relationship between the drafting and editing phases of writing poetry will help! Class will include a lecture about these two distinctly different processes and how to find an approach that works for you, as well as an in-class drafting exercise. We will explore the way a poem comes together in relation to Allen Grossman’s notion that “Art is about something the way a cat is about the house.”