Sequencing Poetry Manuscripts
This seminar, delivered primarily as an interactive lecture, offers techniques students will be able to use to unveil the order and shape a poetry collection wants to take.
About This Course
Instructor(s): Yanyi
Dates: Aug 10, 2025 (1 session)
Times: Sunday, 2:00–4:30 P.M. PT / 5:00-7:30 P.M. ET (2.5 hours)
Enrollment Closes: August 9, 2025, 11:59 P.M. PT
This craft seminar is meant for intermediate and advanced poetry writers comfortable with reading, writing, and discussing poetry in technical terms.
In the cycle of a poet's practice, there comes an inflection point between writing one poem at a time and discovering, from a bird's eye view, what one has written. This discovery process of our own archives constitutes the making of a manuscript, not so much the plugging in of poems to a preordained form but unveiling the order and shape a book wants to take. This seminar, delivered primarily as an interactive lecture, offers techniques students will be able to use to do just that. Some pre-reading will be recommended prior to starting the course.
The class session will be held on Zoom. The seminar will be recorded and available for replay for up to one month.
Price
$99 USD
