Writers' Workshop Series: Take a Word from the Wild Side!

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Book Revue is pleased to partner with Hofstra University for another Writers' Workshop Series. These sessions, each one focusing on a different form of writing, will be led by Hofstra University professor Janet Kaplan and will take place at Book Revue.

Take a Word from the Wild Side! A poetry writing workshop
Instructor: Janet Kaplan

Many of us come to poetry with an agenda; we have an experience to relate or an emotion to express. As a result, our writing can become formulaic, rigid or clichéd. But it’s possible to write wildly imaginative and original poems that play with language. Join us!

Please bring paper and pens or laptops for writing exercises!

Janet Kaplan teaches poetry and creative writing at Hofstra University and is the publisher and editor of Red Glass Books. Janet is the author of three volumes of poetry: The Groundnote, The Glazier’s Country, and Dreamlife of a Philanthropist: Prose Poems & Prose Sonnets, which was the winner of this year’s Ernest Sandeen Prize from University of Notre Dame Press. Her work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, The Paris Review and many other journals. She is the recipient of a fellowship in poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Godot Grant in Poetry from Rattapallax Press and a grant from the Vogelstein Foundation.

To register for this workshop, please send an email to nicolebookrevue@gmail.com with your name and email address. This information will only be used to help us determine how many people to prepare for at each workshop, and to contact participants should any changes be made to the workshops.