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
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Elizabeth Wynne Marshall says
Heaven on earth…..
L. L. Barkat says
That’s what we’re hoping, Elizabeth. 🙂 Anne is a fantastic poet and an experienced workshop teacher. And just an all around lovely person.
L. L. Barkat says
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/
HisFireFly says
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
Lexanne Leonard says
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. 🙂
L. L. Barkat says
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.
Lexanne Leonard says
Thank you. That’s exactly what I needed to know. I’m gathering my pennies! I’m excited. 🙂
Lexanne Leonard says
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.
L. L. Barkat says
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
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
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!
Sandra Heska King says
This would be wonderful. Sigh…
william gerald wooten says
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
william gerald wooten says
Amazing work, being-a-poet. And this is the calliope for lyrical being, and this– the calling card for deepest inquiries…
Lena K Tuffaha says
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
L. L. Barkat says
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.
L. L. Barkat says
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/
Lena K Tuffaha says
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!