NCWN

Cost: $250
In this class, we’ll take advantage of the eight-week workshop by thinking about poetry in a long-term setting. While assignments will be open to individual interpretation and inclination, this approach may entail prompts conducive to series, themed work, or other poetic projects that will span the length of the course. By creating a larger scale for their poetry, students can begin to examine not only how their poems can become successful on an individual level, but how each poem extends into a body of work as well. This will also allow workshop peers to understand and critique each poem in a more complete context, and hopefully lead to a more personalized and valuable workshop experience. We will read and briefly discuss examples of published work, and students will try a few in-class exercises during the first session, but the majority of class time will be spent in workshop. Rochelle Hurt lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she teaches for the Carrboro ArtsCenter and the Loft Literary Center online. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she taught creative writing courses for several years. Rochelle is the author of a chapbook, Rustblood (forthcoming from Dzanc Books), and she has been awarded prizes from and published by several literary journals.