In this workshop, students learn to see every good poem as a toolbox for the creation of a new poem.

Class participants work with forms (sentence, found text, the list), themes (place, history, letter writing) and the making of images that sit near the texts.

This hands-on workshop focuses on in-class writing rather than critiquing peer work. A specific assignment or process is explained, and then students get down to work.

Kevin Young is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels and Dear Darkness, and editor of five others, incl