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The Every Day: How Honing the Craft of Image Brings Alive the Poem 4-Week Zoom Workshop Starts Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
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£245.00

The Every Day: How Honing the Craft of Image Brings Alive the Poem 4-Week Zoom Workshop Starts Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025


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Begins Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

The class will meet weekly via Zoom on Wednesdays, 5:00PM - 6:30PM Pacific Time

Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us.

Lindsey Royal Wayland is a poet, calligrapher, and researcher with an MFA in poetry from Pacific University. A finalist for the 2024 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry by New Letters, her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in swamp pink, Southern Humanities Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Amsterdam Review, the Haiku Society of America, and others. Wayland is the recipient of the Washburn-Hayes merit scholarship and two Port Townsend Arts Commission grants. A native Texan, she lives with her husband and three children on the Salish Sea.

Learn more about Lindsey in our Meet the Teaching Artist series. 

Focusing on the Image, specifically the everyday image, we will tune into the art of seeing and observing as a generative quality for writing poems. We will let everyday images, ideas, objects, and actions inform our revisions.

Everyday images—those quiet, often-overlooked details of our daily lives—are potent and vital sources for poetry. They tether us to the specific and the universal, grounding us in our personal experiences while connecting us to the shared threads of humanity.

In this workshop, we will explore how to observe the world with fresh eyes and translate these observations into evocative, enduring poetry. By studying the works of exemplar poets, we’ll uncover how everyday images—objects, actions, and ideas—serve as portals into the present moment and create timeless poetry. Through close reading, guided prompts, and sensory exercises, participants will cultivate the craft of deep noticing and sensate writing, unlocking the profound potential of the ordinary.

This workshop is designed to awaken your poetic intuition, strengthen your connection to the world around you, and help you craft poetry that resonates with authenticity and universal truth.

Course Texts will be provided by the instructor.

COURSE OUTLINE:

Each 90-minute session combines discussion, writing exercises, and sharing to foster deep engagement with everyday imagery in poetry.

  • Week 1: The Power of Everyday Images

  • Week 2: Sensory Engagement and Precision in Language 

  • Week 3: Finding the Universal in the Specific

  • Week 4: Crafting Timeless Poetry from the Everyday

COURSE TAKEAWAYS:

  1. Deepened Observation Skills: Students will cultivate the ability to see and engage with the world around them through a poet’s lens, learning to recognize and draw inspiration from the quiet, overlooked details of everyday life.

  2. Sensate Writing Practice: Participants will develop a practice of integrating sensory details into their poetry, creating work that is vivid, grounded, and emotionally resonant. 

  3. New Poems Rooted in Everyday Images: By the end of the workshop, students will have produced several new drafts of poems inspired by everyday objects, actions, and ideas, exploring how these images can evoke universal connections. 

  4. Expanded Understanding of Image in Poetry: Through close readings of exemplar poems, students will learn how master poets use everyday images to create timeless, impactful work. This insight will inform their own writing. 

  5. Personal Toolkit for Noticing and Writing: Participants will leave with concrete strategies and prompts for deep noticing and sensate writing that they can incorporate into their ongoing creative practice.

  6. Connection to a Larger Creative Community: By sharing work and engaging in discussions, students will connect their individual experiences to a collective understanding of everyday life, fostering a sense of community and shared purpose.

TESTIMONIALS:

"It has been an absolute pleasure to be a part of three classes with Lindsey Wayland." -Sharon Wenzler

“I want to thank Lindsey again for the wonderful impact she has had on me.  Since I met Lindsey, I knew I wanted to work with her.  If there is one word to describe Lindsey, it is grace. I immensely enjoyed taking a class with Lindsey.  It was the highlight of my summer and time actually spent since I've moved to Port Townsend.  I love to learn.  I love to nourish my love of writing.  I cannot tell you how much I looked forward each week to Lindsey’s unique classes.  Each of the weeks I experienced new techniques and opportunities in writing. The class is a priceless gem. Thank you so very much. Soli dei gloria.” —Dr. Dolores Jacoby

“What a Great Delight to have Lindsey here and for me (and all) able to experience her and her vast trove of talent, with which she is so generous!  What Luck!!!”—Rachel Gaspers

"Lindsey’s classes are a must for everyone wanting to take a deep breath and be intentional about beauty and creativity in their lives. Fun, inspirational, and really a gift to yourself!! Lindsey is a gentle, generous, and a real gem!!! This is art that you can incorporate into your everyday life." —K.B.

ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:

This class meets weekly via Zoom. Come prepared for a super fun class with live interaction on Zoom each week and plenty of writing, reading, and talking!

PAYMENT OPTIONS:

Tuition is $299 USD. You can pay for the course in full or use Shop Pay or Affirm to pay over time with equal Monthly Payments. Both options are available at checkout.

  • Instructor: Lindsey Royal Wayland
  • This seminar will meet on  Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
  • Live Seminar via Zoom 5:00PM - 6:30PM Pacific Time
  • Tuition is $299 USD

Contact us HERE if you have any questions about this class.