Wrote a post today sharing the blurbs for IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY for the first time.
Profoundly grateful to anyone who pre-orders (wrote a whole post about why pre-orders matter to the literary ecosystem, too!). 🤍
Wrote a post today sharing the blurbs for IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY for the first time.
Profoundly grateful to anyone who pre-orders (wrote a whole post about why pre-orders matter to the literary ecosystem, too!). 🤍
Every time I re-read Mueller, I'm reminded I should teach a class on her work:
Oh, does this session promise to be a juicy one.
If you’re not a CWC Member, as usual, we have 5 tickets reserved for you:
luma.com/27l7cemw
Oh, does this session promise to be a juicy one.
If you’re not a CWC Member, as usual, we have 5 tickets reserved for you:
luma.com/27l7cemw
Sylvia Plath:
William Bronk:
How does myth function in contemporary poetry? In this generative craft class, we'll explore myth through close reading of contemporary poems & writing exercises. We'll experiment with voice, embodiment, & transformation, creating poems that draw on myth to expand their imaginative and formal range.
Robert Hayden masterpiece:
How does myth function in contemporary poetry? In this generative craft class, we'll explore myth through close reading of contemporary poems & writing exercises. We'll experiment with voice, embodiment, & transformation, creating poems that draw on myth to expand their imaginative and formal range.
Penelope Shuttle:
FYI: CWC has a (free) Substack newsletter FULL of craft tips and exercises pulled from our recent sessions. It's a wonderful resource run by our members. 💛
Grateful to @thetls.bsky.social for giving this poem a home:
Beginning in January, this three-part course with @alinaetc.bsky.social
1)Techniques to Fictionalize Photography
2) Epigraphs in Fiction
3) Terrible and Beautiful Angelic Forms in Fiction
We have FIVE spots for non-CWC members to join us:
Sneak peek of January in Conscious Writers Collective ✨
www.consciouswriterscollective.com/poetry/
So glad, thank you so much for reading.
Beginning in January, this three-part course with @alinaetc.bsky.social
1)Techniques to Fictionalize Photography
2) Epigraphs in Fiction
3) Terrible and Beautiful Angelic Forms in Fiction
We have FIVE spots for non-CWC members to join us:
Really moved to see this as it's one of my favorite poems I've written. Thank you, @matthewterrill.bsky.social.
Thank youuu!
Sneak peek of January in Conscious Writers Collective ✨
www.consciouswriterscollective.com/poetry/
💛
Ellen Bass:
Dead Butterfly BY ELLEN BASS For months my daughter carried a dead monarch in a quart mason jar. To and from school in her backpack, to her only friend's house. At the dinner table it sat like a guest alongside the pot roast. She took it to bed, propped by her pillow. Was it the year her brother was born? Was this her own too-fragile baby that had lived—so briefly—in its glassed world? Or the year she refused to go to her father's house? Was this the holding-her-breath girl she became there? This plump child in her rolled-down socks I sometimes wanted to haul back inside me and carry safe again. What was her fierce commitment? I never understood. We just lived with the dead winged thing as part of her, as part of us, weightless in its heavy jar.
thankful to @mayacpopa.bsky.social for including this wonderful Ellen Bass poem in her newsletter today
Mary Ruefle:
On this national day of shopping (🙄) here are two craft classes I’m teaching in December:
🎯 ON DESIRE for @Five Things I've Learned: myfivethings.com/class/maya-c...
🎯 ON MORTALITY & POETRY luma.com/1kaxbfbg
Robert Bly:
