Meter and Versification: A Workshop with Tim Steele

Saturday, December 14, 2024
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque

"Our workshop will explore metrical composition. We’ll examine how poets blend the fixed units of meter with the variable rhythms of speech to produce poems. We’ll consider ways that poets reconcile the predictable patterns of meter with the unpredictable flow of living language. And we’ll try to illuminate—in a manner specifically helpful for our writing—the magical paradox by which poets can incorporate, in simple basic measures, a virtually infinite wealth of differently shaped and shaded words, phrases, and clauses.

To illustrate the points we’ll cover, I’ll bring a hand-out with exemplary poems, as well as recordings of modern and contemporary poets reading from their works. Because this workshop consists of one session only, we won’t have time to analyze each other’s poems. But please bring a poem of your own to read to our group. (The poem can be any form, metered or free). And if you would like to submit several poems (again, in any form) prior to, or after, the workshop, I’ll be glad to read them in an encouraging spirit.".

Manuscript Lab with Sara Ellen Fowler

Deadline, December 13, 2024
11:59 PM PT

Beyond Baroque’s inaugural Manuscript Lab seeks eight poets who will each revise and complete their first manuscripts over the duration of eight in-person sessions. The lab will create an active space in which peer feedback, one-on-one conferences, and a braintrust of our community is generated and shared among writers who are working on their first full-length manuscript. The Manuscript Lab will focus on building a workshop community centered around collaborative discussion and discovery.

Hosted by author Sara Ellen Fowler, this program is an opportunity to learn with and from an intimate cohort and analyze what compels a successful first book of poetry–the hows and whys of architecture, craft, and thematic energy. Poets will create and develop their first manuscripts in daring new ways which expand the visions of each collection.

More information HERE.