Poetry Workshop: Lean into Joy
Week 2 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | CLA Alumni Hall Poetry Room | Ages 18 and up
Making space for beauty and randomness may seem like an indulgence in our writing. But attending to our astonishments—the extraordinary in the ordinary—is the most important work a poet can do. In this weeklong workshop, we’ll explore opportunities to reach for joy and connection to our work, employ language not often found in poetry, reflect on the difficulty and importance of documenting moments of change, and discuss strategies for honing and revising new and old drafts. This is a generative poetry workshop that will also touch upon revision and the publication process. Generative. (Ages 18+)
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January Gill O'Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University, and the author of Glitter Road (forthcoming, 2024) Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2012-2018, she was the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Sierra magazine, among others. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O'Neil was the 2019-2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She currently serves as the 2022-2023 board chair of the Association of Writers and Writers Programs (AWP).
