Join us for five immersive days of poetry
Five Days of Finger Exercises for Poets
Join us for five days of mini lectures on craft topics, model poems, discussion, writing exercises and readings of your work for review. The class is open to all levels and will be in two hour chunks, two hours for lecture and discussion, a break for you to work on your poem, eat lunch, etc… and two hours in the afternoon for readings and discussion of your work. Some of the topics discussed might be subject, image, the syllable, the line, the leap, voice, form and style. At the end of the final workshop will give you a couple of take-home exercises so the workshop can extend into your solitary writing life. This is also a chance to get to know other poets, either far flung or near where you live, perhaps gain a writing pal. We hope to see you there.
Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar
Thursday through Monday
May 22-26
Two sessions each day: 10am-12pm and 2pm to 4pm Pacific Time
Cost: $1550
12-15 Participants
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About your teachers
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s most recent collection is Life on Earth. She is also author of Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected, The Book of Men, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Facts about the Moon, winner of the Oregon Book Award, all from W.W. Norton, and a recently released a handbook, Finger Exercises for Poetry. She teaches poetry at Pacific University’s low residency MFA Program. Laux is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Joseph Millar’s most recent collection is Shine (Carnegie-Mellon 2024). Millar grew up in Pennsylvania, attended the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and spent the next 30 years in the San Francisco Bay area working at a variety of jobs, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. His poems record the narrative of a life fully lived among fathers, sons, brothers, daughters, weddings and divorce, men and women. His work has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in such magazines as DoubleTake, Poetry, The Southern Review, APR and Ploughshares. Millar teaches in Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA.
