New poets spend a long time developing a basic sense of mastery. Eventually, they have 10 or 20 or 30 poems they are proud of. What next?

Generating new work and revising it might be thought of as the in-breath and out-breath of poetry.

Jean Valentine, co-translator of Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, and poet and editor Christian Wiman, translator of Stolen Air: Sel

In this introductory workshop, students will learn the tools to help build a poem: language, line breaks, music, sound, silence, shape, structure, image and even a little mystery.

"[O]ne of the authentic, unpredictable, urgent, essential voices of our time. All her life she was in love with the hope of telling utter truth.” (W. S. Merwin).