Sunday Webinar: The Art of Editing Poetry

The Art of Editing Poetry

Member Price: $15

Non-Member Price is $25

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Description: Join us for a special Sunday Webinar celebrating National Poetry Month with former poet laureate, Yvonne Blomer! In this interactive session, Yvonne will dive into already written poems and work on the big question: How can I tell when a poem is finished? We will do a short writing to start the class, discuss elements of editing, and then dive into a poem or two that participants bring. Note: Please bring pen and paper and two poems that you’d like to work on though we may only get to one.

Outcomes: You will have some tools on how to edit a poem, some questions as well as a short amount of time to write a new poem, and edit an existing poem.

Audience: This session is for all poets. Specifically, those who are seeking to improve their work will benefit the most. 

Presenter bio: Yvonne Blomer is a past poet laureate of Victoria, BC and the 2022-2023 Arc poetry magazines poet-in-residence. She creates and teaches poetry classes to a deeply engaged group of poets on Zoom and lives on the territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) speaking people. Her sixth book of poetry, “Death of Persephone: A Murder” is forthcoming in the fall of 2024 and she is currently accepting poems on the theme of ice for a third water-based poetry anthology, details here: https://caitlinpress.com/Blog/Call-for-Submissions-ICE.

Digital doors open at 1:55 pm, event starts at 2:00 pm