Newberry Adult Education Seminars will meet both virtually and in the building for the Winter/Spring term. Although we are still primarily virtual, you will find a smaller selection of in-person seminars in the schedule. For more information about the Newberry’s virtual seminars, including a Zoom tutorial, please see our Virtual Seminars FAQ page. If you have questions about online learning, please reach out to adulteducation@newberry.org. Registration opens Wednesday, January 19th at 9am (Central time). Registration will take place through our online platform, Learning Stream.
Register via Learning Stream here
Seminar Description
This workshop is designed to get you thinking about new ways to write poetry. Over the course of the class, we’ll encounter a range of methods for writing poems—some experimental, some traditional. And we’ll practice these processes ourselves: identifying what makes poems do what they do, while acquiring tools for crafting our own imaginative works. There’ll be exercises and plenty of feedback to get you inspired and thinking about writing in new ways, including workshopping each other’s work..
Five sessions. Registration – $185/$165
Toby Altman is the author of two books of poetry, Discipline Park (Wendy's Subway, 2022) and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017). He holds a PhD in English from Northwestern University and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Materials List
Required:
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Digital Course Packet.
First Reading:
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Please read an excerpt from Jenny Xie's Eye Level.