Critique Workshop with Dorianne Laux and Kim Addonizio

Bring a draft of a poem-in-progress (under 2 pages), with copies for all (14 total) for close reading from Kim and Dorianne. We’ll discuss elements like clarity, structure, line, image, and other aspects of craft, talk about what we value in poems, and give you specific ideas about revising your work.

Kim Addonizio is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and prose. Exit Opera is just out from W.W. Norton (September 2024). Other books include Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, also from Norton; and a memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, (Penguin).Addonizio’s work has been honored with fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, among others, and her work has been translated into several languages. Her collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Oakland, CA and teaches poetry workshops on Zoom. https://www.kimaddonizio.com

Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s most recent collection is Life on Earth. She is also author of Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected, The Book of Men, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Facts about the Moon, winner of the Oregon Book Award, all from W.W. Norton, and recently released a handbook, Finger Exercises for Poetry. She teaches poetry at Pacific University’s low residency MFA Program. Laux is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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