What We Really Mean to Say: Utilizing Poetic Techniques in Prose

with Joe Wilkins

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Online

Intermediate

1 Session

Start Date: January 22, 2023
End Date: January 22, 2023
Day of Week: Sunday
Time: 1:10pm - 4:10pm PT
Capacity: 15 seats
Member Price: $81.00
General Price: $90.00

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When we attend to language, we not only say what it is we’re after in more vivid ways, but we very often find ways to say something we didn’t even know we could say—that is, we discover what it is we really mean to say. In this craft workshop, we will read selections from prose writers utilizing poetic techniques, identify four ways to attend to language, and practice using these techniques in our own writing.

Registration dates:

December 5: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)

December 6: Member registration opens

December 13: General registration opens

Joe Wilkins

Joe Wilkins

he/him

Joe Wilkins is the author of the novel, Fall Back Down When I Die (Little Brown), a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers (Counterpoint), and three poetry collections, most recently When We Were Birds, winner of the 2017 Oregon Book Award in Poetry. He directs the creative program at Linfield College. Go to Joe's website https://joewilkins.org or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JoeWilkins.Author.

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