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Poet-TRY 14 - Back to Basics

In our FOURTEENTH YEAR of poet-try, we’ll go back to basics for a refresher or else a first time experience with that thing called poetry. 

$150 for six weeks. Asynchronous. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Poet-TRY14

What’s a poem anyway? Why does English have that weird system with metric feet? What are forms and do I want to play with them? (Trick question: YES, YOU DO WANT TO PLAY WITH FORMS). What’s a prose poem and why should I care? And more. 

Join us for a generative, asynchronous workshop where we write together and give encouraging empowering feedback. Occasional online office hours, and this time, I’ll provide an occasional  social hour space for students – also optional. 

All levels welcome.

Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a seven time Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and is the author of two poetry collections (How Formal? City Slicker: Encounters with the Outside), two novels (The Puppet Turners of Narrow Interior; Pretend Plumber), a novelette (Rescue Plan), and a how to write magical realism craft book (Delicious Strangeness). 

Originally from Manhattan, Stephanie moved to Southern California in 1986. She has lived on the West Coast ever since; she taught at the University of California, Riverside campus for 30 years and she now resides in Santa Barbara, California. A professor emerita of Comparative Literature, she teaches creative writing at Hugo House Seattle and Inlandia Institute, Riverside.  She is managing editor at SHARK REEF literary magazine (currently on sabbatical) and is culture editor at large and writer at the Journal of Radical Wonder. She sits on the advisory board of Writers Bloc Presents.