Poetry Workshop with Alice Fogel

In this workshop & discussion, we'll delve into your drafts of poems with particular attention to a process of revision that can make them ring & sing & maybe even surprise you. On large & minute scales, it’s worthwhile to examine what you can do with word, pacing, metaphor, sentence structure, image, idea, & more, to take your poems farther & deeper. Have several drafts with you when you sign on.

 

Alice B Fogel served as the New Hampshire poet laureate from 2104 through 2019, instituting a NH Youth Poet Laureate, among other projects. Her latest book is A Doubtful House. Interval: Poems Based on Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature & the 2016 NH Literary Award in Poetry, & her third book, Be That Empty, was a national poetry bestseller. She is also the author of Strange Terrain, on how to appreciate poetry without necessarily “getting” it—which offers inroads to poetry useful for both readers & writers. Nominated for Best of the Web & twelve times for the Pushcart, she has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, & her poems have appeared in many journals & anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Spillway, Hotel Amerika, The Inflectionist, & The Southern Review. She works one-on-one with students with learning differences at Landmark College, & hikes mountains whenever possible.