The best workshop is reading great poems. What poems do you return to over and over? What poems do you recite in your mind for comfort, or for assurance that you are not alone in a sea of uncertainty? What makes great poems come alive on the page? I find the poems I most often return to hit “the sweet spot” on the lyric-narrative continuum. We will look at exemplar poems. We will talk about where our own poems land on the continuum and what that means for the editing process. We will do a generative exercise or two. _________________
DONNA HILBERT’s latest book is Threnody, from Moon Tide Press. Earlier books include Gravity: New & Selected Poems, Tebot Bach, 2018. She is a monthly contributing writer to Verse-Virtual. Work has appeared in Braided Way, Cultural Daily, Chiron Review, Gyroscope, Sheila-Na-Gig, Rattle, Zocalo Public Square, One Art, The Los Angeles Times, and numerous anthologies including The Poetry of Presence, The Path to Kindness, I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing, and featured on Writers on Writing, The Writer’s Almanac, and Lyric Life. She writes and leads private workshops in Southern California, where she makes her home. Learn more at www.donnahilbert.com.
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