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Announcing Our 2013 Poetry Workshop!

By Claire Haidar 26 Comments

poetry workshops

Trying to Get Your Poetry Published? Or Wanting to Boost Your Creative Skills?

This may be the workshop for you.

Anne M. Doe Overstreet has enchanted me already and I am only planning the workshop with her.

She discusses her content plan with me and then adds, as a footnote to the document, this snippet of beauty:

With a lyric line
and hunger
pursue
the deep river stillness
the sour sop of oak leaves
the way the body when it sleeps
reaches away from us
cold as the Bitterroot Mountains
Always
listen and speak the words
that open you up
Let us listen in, you
our map
to the hidden hour and farther places

What To Expect

For 12 weeks, in an attentive online classroom setting, with no more than 15 participants, from 18 February to 10 May, Anne will explore topics such as:

  • place
  • migrating
  • exile
  • hearing with new ears
  • maps
  • the body as environment

What Will the Poetry Workshops Be Like?

1. Every week, you’ll explore an aspect of what we call our landscape or environment and write about it in a concrete way. Some weeks you’ll be challenged to be particularly attentive to what your senses provide in terms of information about what surrounds you—color and scent, for example. Another week you’ll find creative means of mapping your neighborhood.

2. Throughout, you’ll collect facts and observations and pile up free-writes about particulars

3. Each week, prompts will offer a means for revving the engine. You’ll develop fragments and observations to build on. How far and how deep you wish to go with each exercise is up to you. Our emphasis will be on generating material, with follow-up homework/exercises that provide an opportunity to draft a longer piece or to creatively explore other possibilities based on the lesson

4. Some time will be spent on strengthening poetry-writing through the practice of revision (a key element for any poet hoping to become published), and we’ll come together online to learn from each other’s work, by considering what is working

(Assignments will be posted on Mondays and due the following Monday. Anne will be available every day for commenting in the private online classroom and will also give individual guidance and attention to each participant.)

What Teaching Attention Will You Receive?

Says Anne…

“Although the weekly exercises are intended to generate material for drafts or suggest a direction to take on a longer piece, each poet and I will look more closely at the written homework assignment, one-on-one, and have a general dialog that centers on those pieces. At roughly the half-way point and for the last class, we’ll be working with some revision concepts and aim to develop a more polished, possibly publishable piece. I’ll also be available for conversation. Ask me questions. Talk to us, about why you’re drawn to poetry and attentiveness. Let me see how you see! I look forward to the wild line, the unexpected turns and ideas.”

Anne M. Doe Overstreet is the author of Delicate Machinery Suspended: Poems. She has facilitated a writing critique group for thirteen years, been a Pushcart Prize nominee twice, and taught poetry workshops at numerous conferences and retreats including at Laity Lodge and Seattle Pacific University. She is an Associate editor at DMQ Review and the owner/editor at Spine-Line Editing.

Buy yourself the gift of words. Buy a friend an escape into a world yet to be discovered. Buy a loved-one the gift of creation.

Private online group setting and all class materials, including a free digital copy of Delicate Machinery Suspended: Poems, are included in the price.

12 WEEKS • BUY NOW FOR $420.00
8 WEEKS • BUY NOW FOR $350.00

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Claire Haidar
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Part chaos. Part rocket fuel. CEO of the tech company WNDYR and co-founder of the Pattyrn app. Author of Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree. Wild child.
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Comments

  1. Elizabeth Wynne Marshall says

    December 27, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    Heaven on earth…..

    Reply
    • L. L. Barkat says

      December 27, 2012 at 8:01 pm

      That’s what we’re hoping, Elizabeth. 🙂 Anne is a fantastic poet and an experienced workshop teacher. And just an all around lovely person.

      Reply
    • L. L. Barkat says

      February 15, 2013 at 1:47 pm

      Not sure if this would make it possible for you Elizabeth, but we have a new option for those who need less…

      https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/special-option-6-week-workshop/

      Reply
  2. HisFireFly says

    January 2, 2013 at 1:44 pm

    Perhaps if God chooses to gift me in this way… The $$ is not available to me at present, but, He can do as He chooses.

    I’m open to surprises

    Reply
  3. Lexanne Leonard says

    January 4, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    When will the conversations and coming together take place? Will there be specific dates and times? This sounds wonderful, but I want to be sure I can make the commitment and work it with my schedule. 🙂

    Reply
    • L. L. Barkat says

      January 5, 2013 at 12:36 pm

      Assignments will be posted to the private online classroom on Mondays. Anne will review your poetry and be available to chat about it via the classroom at any time (it’s asynchronous… you comment there).

      Participants will have the ability to interact with each other as well, via the private online classroom.

      Reply
      • Lexanne Leonard says

        January 5, 2013 at 10:31 pm

        Thank you. That’s exactly what I needed to know. I’m gathering my pennies! I’m excited. 🙂

        Reply
        • Lexanne Leonard says

          January 30, 2013 at 10:25 pm

          I am very excited! I’m signed-up. But I have another question. Is there any possibility of getting continuing education credit from a university for an extra fee? Sometimes this is a possibility if the instructor is connected to a university who offers this option for classroom teachers.I am a elementary classroom teacher and am always looking for a way to gather more credits towards my re-certification.

          Reply
          • L. L. Barkat says

            January 31, 2013 at 2:23 pm

            Lex, not sure. I’ve asked Anne to look into it. I wonder if there is a way to get it as “Life Credit” through a program that will certify work you’ve done and give credit for it? (You have to submit the work for them to look over and decide).

            I believe that the Nyack College Adult Program does that. Not sure of their fees.

          • Anne Doe-Overstreet says

            February 7, 2013 at 2:24 pm

            Lexanne, since I am not directly attached to the university, that option is not available to me, as far as I have been able to discover. I am not familiar with the “Life Credit”, but wouldn’t that be lovely?

          • Lexanne Leonard says

            February 9, 2013 at 1:18 am

            Thank you, L.L. and Anne for the information. I am so looking forward to the class. My life as a classroom teacher is crazy, but I’m making time for me. This is important and I am feel so lucky to be able to do this. Yay!

  4. Sandra Heska King says

    January 4, 2013 at 3:48 pm

    This would be wonderful. Sigh…

    Reply
  5. william gerald wooten says

    January 10, 2013 at 10:20 am

    Hello, I’m William. I am very greatful for this chance to participate, learn and show-off my work, if it’s worth it. I’m unhappy to say, as my 1st poem of the morning states, I have to hit the pawn shops today, in order to afford meds for cats, food for us all (me and my six cats), and some additional courses in music to allow me to get some paying employment down the road. However, if this is an ongoing course, plase remember me. I want and need the criticism and the comradery. Will you? Thanks, the next time? I hope so. Your follower and friend, William Gerald Wooten

    Reply
  6. william gerald wooten says

    January 31, 2013 at 2:01 pm

    Amazing work, being-a-poet. And this is the calliope for lyrical being, and this– the calling card for deepest inquiries…

    Reply
  7. Lena K Tuffaha says

    February 8, 2013 at 10:20 pm

    Hello,
    I signed up successfully (payment processed) but I haven’t received any information about the classes, writing prompts, process. Feeling a little lost. Did I miss something. Will we receive email correspondence or is there a web site I need to go to. Please advise. So looking forward to this workshop!
    Thank you

    Reply
    • L. L. Barkat says

      February 8, 2013 at 10:28 pm

      Lena, welcome. 🙂

      When it gets closer to the class time, you’ll be invited to our online classroom and everything will be there. Thanks for asking. And sorry that wasn’t clearer.

      Reply
      • L. L. Barkat says

        February 8, 2013 at 10:34 pm

        Also, Lena, here’s the page that PayPal should have returned you to, after payment. More details are at the bottom of the page 🙂

        https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/so-glad-you-are-joining-us/

        Reply
        • Lena K Tuffaha says

          February 9, 2013 at 12:57 am

          Thank you — this is very helpful. For some reason I didn’t get re-directed to that page by Paypal. Looking forward with great joy!

          Reply

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