Class Description
Winter is the perfect time to dust off your 75-95%-complete stack of poems (or poems you hate but want to like?), brave a workshop with others at your level, embark on revision-specific exercises, and find new life/new hope in old writing. Revise, fall in love with your poems again—and send them out! We will discuss documents detailing what makes a poetry contest judge stop in his or her tracks, and you’ll be given revision prompts so enticing you’ll barely realize you are Doing Hard Work. We’ll spend a mix of revision-writing, (brief) craft talk, and workshopping. Think of this weekend as “couple’s retreat or honeymoon” for you and your poems. Dive in and re-emerge connected again to your writing.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
For more detailed information about GrubStreet scholarships, including how to contribute to scholarship funds for other students, click here.
This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. About 15 minutes before your class is scheduled to begin, you'll receive an email from your instructor with a link to join the class meeting!
Zoom Participation:
Students are not required to turn their camera on, but are encouraged to participate any way they feel comfortable through functions such as the live chat, emoji reactions, and unmuting the microphone. Learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
We ask that instructors enable closed captioning and send a transcript of the session after class. You can also enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting. If your instructor forgets to send the transcript, just send ’em an email!