Deep Dive Poetry Workshop (18yo+)

Name: Deep Dive Poetry Workshop (18yo+)
Start: 2025-04-19T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-19T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 520 W Waugh St, Dalton, GA, United States, Georgia 30720

Schedule

Sat Apr 19 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

520 W Waugh St, Dalton, GA, United States, Georgia 30720 | Dalton, GA

Ages 18+ | $45/workshop
Do you write poetry but feel you could use a little guidance? Are you stuck, frustrated, or looking for a way to shake up—or go deeper into—your poems? Do you struggle to recognize whether your drafts have a solid emotional center, and engage and surprise the reader?
If you've answered yes to any of these questions, this comprehensive two-hour workshop is for you. We will spend time with generative writing exercises, and approach revision with specific strategies. Our goal will be to create a rhythmic flow between creative exploration and deliberate craft refinement. Bring a pen or pencil (or crayons, markers, or whatever you like), paper, and a few poems you are ready to revise. If you don't have anything to revise, don't worry. We'll create new drafts together.
Minimum of 6 students must be met in order for class to make.
REGISTER HERE: https://portal.iclasspro.com/creativeartsguild520/camps/17?sortBy=name
INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Kris Whorton's poetry collection, Everyday Omens, is forthcoming from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in early 2026. Her first collection, Alchemy, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2023. Originally from Boulder, Colorado, Whorton moved to the south in late 1997 and has lived in Chattanooga since 2002. She teaches creative and scientific writing, and literature at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where she also served as the assistant director of the Meacham Writers' Workshop for 4 years.
Whorton has an MA in Literature from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainer Writing Workshop in Parkland, Washington. She teaches teens and adults in the community and worked with the incarcerated in Hamilton and Bradley County jails from 2018 to 2023.
Whorton's poems have appeared in The Jabberwock Review, riverSedge, and The Greensboro Review. Her fiction has been published by Driftwood Press, Scarlet Leaf Review, and elsewhere; she was an editor and weekly contributor to Roots Rated, and her creative nonfiction has been anthologized.