Poetry Workshop
* 8 week course beginning Wednesday January 3rd, 2007
* Meeting 8 consecutive Wednesday nights from 7-9 pm
* Location: various
* All levels
The course will focus on the generation of poems. Be prepared to write a lot and to have your work regularly discussed. Students will learn to formulate thoughtful and instructive criticisms, guiding the poet toward effective revisions.
The class will read and discuss published poetry – work by living and dead writers, known and not-so-known. Student concerns about poetic conventions (the line, the stanza – whatever they may be) will also be addressed.
If you are interested in writing and discussing poems in an atmosphere of support, investigation, and love of the form, this is your class.
Instructor: Priscilla Becker, a musician and writer, recently received her MFA from Columbia University, where she currently teaches a course on poetry, drama, and fiction writing. She also teaches poetry at NYU and Poets House. Her first book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review book prize. Her poems have appeared in Open City, The Paris Review, Fence, Raritan, and Verse; her essays in Open City and Cabinet magazine; and her music reviews in The Nation and Filter magazine.
The course costs $300.
If interested, email: saprilla@gmail.com or call: 917 981 9237 for more information.
