In this class, we will be analyzing the work of poets whose speakers lie, misremember, redirect and rewrite their narratives, before attempting to write our own unreliable poems.
Stacey Waite is Associate Professor of English and Graduate Chair at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln and is the author of: "Choke" (winner of the Frank O’Hara Prize for Poetry)
Michael Catherwood's books are "Dare", "If you Turned Around Quickly", and his latest book is "Projector" from Stephen F. Austin Press. He is former editor at The Backwaters Press and currently the Associate Editor at Plainsongs since 1995.
Whether you are a poet with a handful of poems to work with or you simply have a vision for a future chapbook, you will be given a chance to leave this workshop with the seeds for a new and cohesive chapbook.
What makes a comparison take off or crash land? In this workshop, we’ll construct poems around some of our own similes, whose strangeness might stumble into the sublime.
Lorraine Duggin is a lifelong Nebraskan, born in Omaha, where she has been teaching English as a Second Language and other English classes at Metropolitan Community College since 1999.
Feb 07, 2023, 6:30 PM CST – Feb 08, 2023, 7:30 PM CST
Zoom
Amy Haddad is a poet, nurse and Professor Emerita at Creighton University. She will read poetry from her recently published collection, "An Otherwise Healthy Woman" and discuss her journey to poetry.
Feb 18, 2023, 10:00 AM CST – Feb 19, 2023, 11:30 AM CST
Zoom
Learn practical strategies for putting the image at the center of our writing and see what kind of poem emerges when your images are assembled or magnetized by each other.