Other Doors
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Other Doors: X Ways to Revise a Poem provides essential lessons in the art of revision, helps you become more confident in your ability to edit your work, and prepares students to submit their work for publication in literary magazines and journals. This course is a pre-requisite for anyone who would like to take A Body of Work, which is Holly’s annual manuscript incubator.
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Poetry As—
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A workshop series offering shared space for new writing, vital conversations, encounters with guest artists and authors, and guided writing experiences with your host, Holly Wren Spaulding.
Poetry as Astonishment, Poetry as Listening, Poetry as Beauty, Poetry as Grief Ritual, Poetry as Unknowing, Poetry as Pathfinding, Poetry as Refuge, and Poetry and the Sacred are our themes in 2024.
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A Body of Work
This course will not be offered in 2025. Check back in 2026.
A manuscript incubator where you receive support, mentorship, and feedback as you develop your first poetry chapbook manuscript. ABOW is a good fit for those who have assembled enough poems to begin thinking in terms of a collection. It is recommended that the student complete Other Doors: X Ways to Revise a Poem or another revision focused course, before joining ABOW. Applications open in November for the follow year’s cohort.
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Infinite Imagination
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A process lab for new writing and creativity where we explore the uses and pleasures of prolific iteration while undertaking experiments that involve committing to our obsessions, exploring echoes, and embracing swiftness and looseness. Students will conceive a small project based on their findings in the lab. Online. Space is very limited.
A Secret Life
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A Secret Life offers a gentle framework for how to listen, imagine, and steward the creative call of something personally significant: an art project that matters to you. In this special winter workshop series you will be supported in a process of finding freedom, space, and confidence to materialize your secret life and a secret project in any media.