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Dara-Lyn Shrager, editor of Radar Poetry, leads this four week workshop designed for experienced poets wishing to further their craft. Registration is required.
During each session of this four-week workshop, poets will be given prompts to generate first drafts of poems in response to current events. For some of us, these poems will speak directly to conflicts and events around the world. For others, a draft may begin as one kind of response before becoming something else entirely. We'll discuss how poets manage fraught topics like politics, world events, personal freedoms, etc. and study examples by several other poets.
Each poet will have the opportunity to share at least one new draft for group feedback during our month together.
About the Instructor:
Dara-Lyn Shrager lives in Princeton, New Jersey and is the co-founder and editor of Radar Poetry. Her chapbook "The Boy From Egypt" was published in 2009 by Finishing Line Press. Her full-length manuscript "Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee" was published by Barrow Street Press in 2018, after being named a finalist for the Barrow Street Poetry Prize. Dara-Lyn holds an MFA from Bennington College and a BA from Smith College. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her work also appears in the anthology "Braving the Body" (Harbor Editions, 2024) and she has had articles published in many newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Magazine.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Workshops & Classes | Poetry | Humanities | *Registration Required |
TAGS: | NEH |