Online Writing Prose Poetry (Meets via Google Meet)

will sample diverse exercises based on accessible, yet artistically challenging and satisfying, models.

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. In the optional weekly, unrecorded live discussions, 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.

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 chapbook contest. Her poems and short prose have appeared in TriQuarterly, The Sun, Massachusetts Review, New Ohio Review, The Southern Review, Verse Daily, Hotel Amerika, Salamander, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Chautauqua, The Southampton Review, Calyx, Cimarron Review,Fugue, Tiferet, PANK, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, among other publications. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Fugue Poetry Prize, honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and has been featured in several podcasts, including The Writer’s Almanac. She is a graduate of Princeton University. Lisa is currently working on new collections of poetry and short prose.