Mountain Writers Series

Workshops

Poetry

Second Sight: A Poetry Workshop with Paulann Petersen

To register for a workshop, print and complete a registration form and mail it with a $20 nonrefundable deposit to the Mountain Writers Center. Payment in full is due by the first session of the workshop.

Auditors: If space is available, audit participation will be offered for the poetry master class workshops for $40. Contact us for details.

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Paulann Petersen

Second Sight: A Poetry Workshop with Paulann Petersen

The word "revision" offers us a bracing truth. To truly revise is to do much more than mere editing and tinkering: it's learning to see our poems anew, moving them toward their strengths. In this workshop, we'll spend the sessions critiquing your poems, looking at possible directions for revision. I'll use these critiques as opportunities for short lessons, addressing issues of craft raised by the particular poem we're looking at. There's no way to predict exactly which craft issues will emerge, but surely line integrity (line breaks), sound form (musical devices), compression, tone, effectiveness of trope, and dramatic strategy will be among them. Open to writers of all levels.

Cost: $85 General/$80 MWS members [2 Wednesdays]
Meets: 7-10 p.m., 2 Wednesdays, September 26 and October 3
Enrollment: Maximum 12; minimum 6.
Location: Looking Glass Bookstore (map), 7983 SE 13th Ave, PDX 97202
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