Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Joan Naviyuk Kane: re/vision

re/vision: Generating Drafts, Working with Notes, and Moving toward Public Poems

The practice of a poet can be constrained by the mundane dynamics of life outside of the space of the lyric poem and its mysterious originating impulses. After several years of coping with “unprecedented times,” this generative and revision-inclined workshop will offer concrete approaches to replenishing the creative process through close-reading, presenting tried-and-true writing exercises, and putting revision at easier reach. With the idea that poetic complexities arise from originating impulses as well as associative techniques, participants in this workshop will come together in a virtual space that affirms, honors, and empowers constructive poetic practice.

Sunday  |  July 9  |  12-3pm ET  |  $120 ($96 for Members)

All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions.

About the educator:

Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq with family from Ugiuvak (King Island) and Qawiaraq (Mary’s Igloo), Alaska, whose most recent book, Dark Traffic, was a finalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts poetry award. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award recipient, she’s recently served as faculty at Harvard, Tufts, and elsewhere, and was founding faculty of the graduate creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Currently raising her children as a single mother in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kane is an editor, writer, and collaborator for the Finland-based Mediated Arctic Geographies interdisciplinary literary, critical, and cultural collective and its affiliated projects.

While our physical space is closed for construction, workshops will be held over Zoom. While you can use Zoom from your phone or browser, we recommend downloading the desktop client.