Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Mark Wunderlich: Toward a Daily Practice of Poetry

Toward a Daily Practice of Poetry

Engaging in a daily practice of reading and writing poetry can transform the psyche and lead writers to surprising and unexpected new work.  In this three-hour generative workshop, we will explore a series of approaches, practices and exercises that move you from silence and the blank page, to a lifetime of engagement with language that is expansive, nurturing and surprising.  We will look at innovative practices that involve visual work, artists’ notebooks, found poems, experimental translation, and epistolary exchanges that are all meant to help you reimagine your approaches to writing poems, and even to what we think a poem might be. We will write together, read together, and explore the ways in which we can place poetry at the center of a life of writing.

3 hours on Wednesday  |  July 19  |  6-9 pm 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:

Mark Wunderlich has published four collections of poetry, most recently God of Nothingness. Wunderlich’s first book, The Anchorage, received the Lambda Literary Award. A third volume of poems titled The Earth Avails, received the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award.  He has published individual poems in The New Yorker, The Believer, The Paris Review, and Slate, among others.

Wunderlich is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the Amy Lowell Trust. He is Executive Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars graduate writing program.

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.