When: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays, April 5, 12, 19, 26, and May 10, 17 (no class May 3)
Where:Â Wordcrafters Online Zoom Studio
Details:Â Find hope, and resilience, by learning from poets past and how to write your own in this six-week online class with Michael Wilson.
We live in an increasingly alarming global society, fraught with doomscrolling and information overload. It feels as though we’re ever at the cusp of crisis–ecological, political, personal–and yet, impossibly, the world goes on.
How do you reckon with these disparate realities? How do you grapple with the anxiety of living through the times when living is all you can do?
By learning from the past. And writing your own way through.
In this six-week poetry class, you’ll write poems towards these questions as you study and discuss poets who’ve lived through apocalyptic times, from Czeslaw Milosz and the post-WWII Polish poets to those writing on the cutting edge of ecological catastrophe.
Rather than using these examples as formal models, you’ll use them as a writer, to think alongside as you engage in your craft. You’ll also do some occasional experimenting with formal modes and genres (elegies, sonnets, etc.) that lend themselves toward this line of inquiry.
No prior experience with poetry is necessary.
Arrive curious and open.
Be willing to learn about the poetic canon without sacrificing your personal vision and creativity.
Cost: Pay From Your Heart: $269-$449
Information:Â Workshop details and registration
Your instructor
Michael Wilson (he/him) is a writer, teacher, and forever student of poetry. He graduated from the University of Oregon where he received his MFA in Creative Writing, and currently lives in Eugene, OR, where he’s focusing on community building and project management. He has a terrible, perfect dog and thinks too much about games.
