Critique Workshop with Dorianne Laux and Kim Addonizio

Saturday, November 23, 2024
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque

Bring a draft of a poem-in-progress (under 2 pages), with copies for all (14 total) for close reading from Kim and Dorianne. We’ll discuss elements like clarity, structure, line, image, and other aspects of craft, talk about what we value in poems, and give you specific ideas about revising your work.lues songs. Lastly, we’ll have a guided writing session and round of sharing our work.

Kim Addonizio is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and prose. Exit Opera is just out from W.W. Norton (September 2024). Other books include Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, also from Norton; and a memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, (Penguin).Addonizio’s work has been honored with fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, among others, and her work has been translated into several languages. Her collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Oakland, CA and teaches poetry workshops on Zoom.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s most recent collection is Life on Earth. She is also author of Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected, The Book of Men, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Facts about the Moon, winner of the Oregon Book Award, all from W.W. Norton, and recently released a handbook, Finger Exercises for Poetry. She teaches poetry at Pacific University’s low residency MFA Program. Laux is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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.