| Saturdays, July 6-27 Hours: 2-4pm Fee: $140 Sharpen your skills as a writer and reader and deepen your connection to our community of poets! Writer Joe Boyle will lead this workshop in poetry for adult and teen writers of all experience levels. Over the course of 4 two-hour sessions on July 6, 13, 20 and 27, students will be supported in crafting and revising original work. All subject matters and styles are welcome—received forms from sonnets to ghazals, free verse, prose poems and more. Each two-hour session will include audio/visual or print resources provided by the instructor, as well as optional themes, to assist in “charging the air” with language and inspiration. Students will also receive constructive criticism to benefit their revision process and celebrate their accomplishments. As a workshop—as opposed to a class—emphasis will be placed on collaboration and discussion instead of lecture. Students agree to miss no more than one class, as this is a workshop, and their fellow students will depend on their participation, feedback and critique in order to provide an enriching experience to all. No refunds will be given for missed classes. Required supplies to bring: – One personal notebook of lined paper (either memo pad style, composition book or digital device). – Several dozen sheets of unlined paper or blank printer paper if you will be writing visual poetry. – Several dozen of your favorite mixed pens and pencils (mechanical is best for not having to sharpen). |
About the instructor:
Joe Boyle is a Sacramento-based writer originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He received his MA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin (Ireland), where he concentrated in poetry composition and served as editor for the program’s annual anthology of new writing. His poems have been published in numerous print and online literary publications, and he has copy edited and published journalistic prose. Joe has experience teaching poetry composition in elementary schools through Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center and to high school students through Upward Bound, a federal TRIO program funded by the U. S. Department of Education.
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