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The Forest and the Trees:
Writing Poems in a Series
Writing Workshop in New Jersey
January 13-16, 2023
Led by Nancy Reddy
Whether the poems are joined by content, form or craft technique, working in a series can help you see the forest for the trees and overcome the hurdle of what to write next. (It’s also just a fun challenge!) This workshop will include discussion of sample poems, generative exercises and time to write fresh takes on a topic that matters to you. You will also share your work and develop plans to revise it. You are welcome to bring poems you would like to grow into a series or use this workshop to plant seeds for something new; either way, you will leave with a promising set of drafts and tons of directions for future writing.
*Limited to just 10 participants.*
“I had such a great time and left feeling exhausted and rejuvenated, with my luggage full of new poems, books and a renewed excitement. I’ve heard so many great things about the Getaway, but no praise equaled the experience.”
~ Stacey, Fresno, CA
Nancy Reddy
Nancy Reddy is the author of Pocket Universe (LSU, 2022); Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series; and Acadiana (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). She’s also co-editor, along with Emily Pérez, of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood (UGA, 2022). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, Blackbird, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review and Smartish Pace, and her essays have appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, Brevity, The Millions and elsewhere. The recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and grants from the NJ State Council on the Arts and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, she teaches writing at Stockton University. Visit her website and read some poems by Nancy.
