Reading and Writing through the Poetry of Lorine Niedecker

A poetics workshop like no other. Experience the poetry of a single author— in community with other writers— and write in response together.

An 8-week writing workshop with Hoa Nguyen on the works of Lorine Niedecker.

Expect to generate many poems. 

Format:

This is a 2-hour workshop: we read together for the first hour and in the second hour we write independently. Meeting for 8 sessions, it completes with a celebration of the poetry we have written.

Experience the workshop in real-time or work from a recording of our Zoom meetings. Receive weekly written materials that give form to insights and offer avenues into creativity. These include inventive writing prompts, contextualizing commentary, critical essays, interviews, links for further reading, revision tools, images, and sound files. This is a full experience.

The workshop will deepen your practice as a reader and a poet. It will lead to poems, perceptions, friends, bibliographies, and new conversations.

Meetings take place in Zoom 4 PM to 6 PM ET, Sundays, May 10 - July 05. (No workshop June 28).

For this workshop, we will read and write through Lorine Niedecker’s Collected Poems edited by Jenny Penberthy.

History of the Workshop, Cost and How to Join: 

I have led poetry workshops like this one for more than 20 years. See this interview with me on the Poetry Foundation. See this link for an essay on the workshop as part of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series.

NOTE: Enrollment closed

No one turned away for lack of funds. All inquiries welcome. I will gladly send samples.

“This workshop will deepen your practice as a reader and a poet. It will lead to poems, insights, friends, bibliographies, and new conversations.”