7-week Intermediate/Advanced Poetry Workshop with Gabrielle Bates [Start Date: April 9, 2022]

*** This class is full! If you would like to be on the wait list or receive an email the next time this workshop is offered, please email classes@openpoetrybooks.com, subject line "Wait List for Advanced/Intermediate Workshop with Gabrielle Bates." *** 7 Sessions: Saturdays, April 2 - May 21, 3pm-5pm PT In-Person Max: 7 people Min: 4 people COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this workshop we will push ourselves to articulate descriptive—rather than evaluative—feedback on poems, focusing on the relationship between content and form, specific craft elements, and potential connections to literary lineages and traditions. Our goal will be to empower revisions that honor authorial individuality and ambition, while also providing poets with insight into how their work might activate more resonance in readers. Our intimate class size, capped at seven people, is perfect for sustaining active discussion, and each student will have the opportunity to workshop at least four original poems. In addition to