In this workshop, students will explore strategies for generating new poems and revising older work, always with the intent of surprising themselves.

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.

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

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?