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Mining Our Obsessions 1-Day Intensive Poetry Zoom Workshop, Saturday, June 24th, 2023
$75.00

Mining Our Obsessions 1-Day Intensive Poetry Zoom Workshop, Saturday, June 24th, 2023

Saturday, June 24th, 2023

The class will meet on 6/24 via Zoom, 12:00PM - 4:00PM PST

Open to All writers!

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

Taught by Lauren Davis, author of the forthcoming short story collection The Milk of Dead Mothers (YesYes Books) and the poetry collections Home Beneath the Church (Fernwood Press) and When I Drowned (Aldrich Press), and the chapbooks Each Wild Thing’s Consent (Poetry Wolf Press), and The Missing Ones (Winter Texts). She holds an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars.

Allow your obsessions to work for you. Join Davis for a one-day intensive poetry workshop focused on mining your mental addictions, whether it be an idea, person, place, or thing.

Participants will choose one of their obsessions to indulge, and Davis will provide writing prompts to create new work.

By the end of the workshop, participants will have a small body of first drafts that speaks to what haunts and fascinates them the most.

COURSE TAKEAWAYS:

  • Learn how obsessions can work in a poet's favor.
  • Free write to discover more about your own obsession.
  • Create first drafts of original poetry based on writing prompts

ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:

This class meets via Zoom. Come prepared for an engaging class with live interaction on Zoom!

PAYMENT OPTIONS:
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: Lauren Davis

  • Saturday, June 24th, 2023

  • 12:00PM - 4:00PM PST

  • Course is fully ONLINE.

Instructor Lauren Davis is the author of the forthcoming short story collection The Milk of Dead Mothers (YesYes Books) and the poetry collections Home Beneath the Church (Fernwood Press) and When I Drowned (Aldrich Press), and the chapbooks Each Wild Thing’s Consent (Poetry Wolf Press), and The Missing Ones (Winter Texts). She holds an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars. She is a former Editor in Residence at The Puritan’s Town Crier, and she is the winner of the Landing Zone Magazine’s Flash Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies including Prairie Schooner, Spillway, Poet Lore, Ibbetson Street, Ninth Letter and elsewhere. She reads for the Maine Review. Davis lives with her husband and two black cats on the Olympic Peninsula in a Victorian seaport community.