The best way to learn how to write is to read, and read widely. Read things you love, things you don’t, things that intimidate and confuse you, things that inspire. In this recurring class, we’ll approach a series of texts from the perspective of how they got made, what makes them work, and what we can learn about our craft by reading them together.
Reading Like A Writer is like a book club where you talk shop. It’s a discussion-based class with writing prompts, hosted on Zoom. Classes will be 1½ hours, and the course fee includes books at a 15% discount. (If you already have a copy of the book in question, you’ll receive a gift card from M. Judson for its value. This is how we help support the bookstore that supports us.)
POETRY Session
Writer Michael McGriff once said to our poetry instructor Mamie Morgan, "I don't get mad at myself when I don't write. I get mad at myself when I don't read." It's an obvious enough statement, yet one I return to often. If the wealth of our own experiences--our own vocabularies--is limited to the single pond of our lone mind, it goes without saying that the world of literature--with its many vocabularies, psyches, lands--offers up limitless oceans. In this course, students will converse with four collections in order to strengthen the elasticity of and open the possibilities within their own practices as poets.
July 7, 14, 21, 28, 6-7:30pm, $155
THE BOOKS
Edith, by Meg Freitag
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, by Ross Gay
OBIT, by Victoria Chang
The Galleons, by Rick Barot