Begin Again

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Beginning a poem does not require certainty, only attention to the world at hand. In this generative poetry workshop, we’ll explore multiple entry points into poems, using place, image, and sound as guides. Prompts will invite surprise, risk, and responsiveness to contemporary landscapes and moments. Alongside generative writing, we’ll discuss revision strategies and ways to recognize what a draft is asking to become.
January O'Neil

January Gill O’Neil is a professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding( 2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. Glitter Road received the 2024 Poetry by the Sea Best Book Award and the Julia Ward Howe Prize and was a finalist for several honors, including the Massachusetts Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, and American Poetry Review. A Cave Canem fellow, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival from 2012 to 2018 and was the 2019–2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is a former chair of the AWP Board of Directors and its longest-serving current board member, and she teaches graduate poetry writing in the summer program at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. 

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Week 9 - Begin Again Week 9 | Aug 24 - Aug 28
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
8:30 am - 10:30 am
Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall Poetry Room Spots remaining:11

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