Online Prose Poetry (Bellamy) - Fall 2024 / Starts Wed, Nov 13
Meets 6 Wednesdays 7:00 -9:00 pm ET
Taught by Lisa Bellamy
Price includes all fees
Writing prose poetry is exciting, fun, and challenging. Prose poems vary a great deal. They display an abundance of different narrators and approaches: the one common element is that sentences, rather than free or metrical verse, drive the writing.
In this six-week class, you will sample diverse exercises based on accessible, yet artistically challenging and satisfying, models. When we meet, we will discuss the week’s exercise and explore the model’s basic technical issues. All welcome: poets, writers who have never written a poem, or anyone in between. This class is open to new, current, and returning Writers Studio students and meets weekly via Google Meet. The Google Meets are not recorded.
Students attend class via Google Meet (with or without cameras enabled). The entire class takes place during this class meeting: students share work, which is read aloud; students offer their classmates feedback; the teacher responds to each student's work; and the teacher discusses the next week’s exercise.
Students who have taken three or more terms of a six-week class are eligible for Level 2 or an Intermediate class.
Instructor
Writers Studio Teacher
Lisa Bellamy
Lisa Bellamy is the author of The Northway, a full-length poetry collection (Terrapin Books). Her chapbook Nectar won The Aurorean’s poetry chapbook contest. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in TriQuarterly, The Sun, Massachusetts Review, New Ohio Review, The Southern Review, Sho, Allium, Verse Daily, Hotel Amerika, Salamander, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Chautauqua, Kestrel, Gyroscope Review, The Southampton Review, Calyx, Cimarron Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction (2nd-place competition prize), Tiferet, Anglican Theological Review, PANK, Christian Century, and Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia (University of Georgia Press), among other publications. She has received two Pushcart Prizes, a Fugue Poetry Prize, honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and has been featured in podcasts, including The Writer’s Almanac. The U.N. Network on Migration featured her poem "Yoho" in its 2022 exhibition. She is a graduate of Princeton University. Lisa is working on new collections of poetry and short fantasy prose.
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