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Featured Event
Saturday Afternoon Poetry Workshops with Terry Lucas
Six Saturdays via Zoom
July 15-Aug 19, 1:00-3:30 PM PST (4:00-6:30 EST)
Limit of 10 attendees at $290 for the 6 sessions.
Attendees will automatically have reservations to read at the July 8 Sturgeon Moon Poetry Reading.
See below for details and to reserve your spot.
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This six-week workshop will focus on beginnings and endings to lyrical-narrative, free-verse, and prose poems. Although, formal poems are allowed, more benefit will be derived from submitting poems with free-verse and organic forms than formal poems that have prescribed opening and closing lines. Each session will begin with the reading of a poem by a major poet that demonstrates strong opening and/or closing lines. Then we will consider the openings and closings in your own poems, as well as other craft elements.
Click HERE to reserve your spot. You may pay via PayPal or scroll down to pay with a major credit card. The software will show you purchasing a subscription, but it is actually a one-time payment for the six weeks of workshops. Also, there will be nothing shipped, even though the software asks if you want the “product” shipped to billing address.
Refunds: A 100% refund will be issued upon email cancellation of enrollment by July 1. Between July 1 and July 15, an 80% refund will be issued upon email cancellation. After the first workshop and before the second workshop, a 60% refund will be issued upon email cancellation. After the second workshop, no refunds will be issued. Email for cancellation is lucas.t274@gmail.com.
Terry Lucas is the author of two prize-winning chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections, most recently The Thing Itself (Longship Press, 2020) with photographer Gary Topper. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous national and international journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets (2012), B O D Y, Crab Orchard Review, Green Mountains Review, and The Sun Magazine, among others. Terry taught as a master poet for the pilot poetry program in Von Stueben High School in Chicago, was a founding editor of Trio House Press, and a regular guest speaker for the Dominican University of California’s low-residency MFA program. He holds a Master of Education degree from Southwestern Seminary and a Master of Fine Arts from New England College. For ten years, as Terry Lucas: Poetry Coach, he has mentored beginning, emerging, and established poets, helping them to produce their best work and see it published. Terry is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Marin County, California.
