Poetry Workshop: Making the Personal Universal: Impossible, Yet Necessary
Week 8 | M, W, F | Alumni Hall Poetry Room | Ages 18+
Poets at all levels sometimes struggle to make their poems clear, to translate their lived experiences to the page in ways that are accessible to general readers, particularly when they are writing about personal subjects. This flexible workshop will focus on helping you achieve a greater degree of clarity while writing about personal topics without losing the precision of poetic expression. Writing assignments will be based on poems culled from recent literary journals and books to give students a sense of what is new in contemporary poetry.
Jim Daniels
Jim Daniels’ latest book, The Luck of the Fall, fiction, was published by Michigan State University Press in July 2023. Recent poetry collections include The Human Engine at Dawn, Wolfson Press; Gun/Shy, Wayne State University Press; and Comment Card, Carnegie Mellon University Press. His first book of nonfiction, The Abridged Book of Water, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. A native of Detroit, he currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low–residency MFA program.