CLASSROOMS
Classrooms
“Live” Poet Camp events meet on Google Meet.
Asynchronous Poet Camp classes are hosted on Wet.Ink, an online learning platform designed for writing workshops.
The only classes which have “official” start dates are those labeled “Workshop,” which include Sarah’s comments, and those only apply to those taking the class with her feedback. Otherwise, they begin when you’re ready!
Independent poets determine their own start date. Self-guided courses are ready when you are, and begin the first day you log into the course.
Writer’s Groups should come to an agreement about what date you’d like to begin, and mail Sarah to make arrangements.
*Self-guided courses are ready when you are! Independent poets determine their own start date. Writer’s Groups should come to an agreement about what date you’d like to begin.
*Asynchronous, Wet.Ink
$275 Writers Group, 9 week course *3-5 members per group
Group votes on start date.
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$225 Independent, 8 week course
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Night Writer: Singing about the Dark Times
Hybrid course – Course content posted week to week on Wet.Ink plus optional one hour weekly live meetings on Google Meet for class discussion and some sharing. (Time determined by class vote before week 1.)
$350, 8 week course
MONDAY July 21 – SUNDAY September 21
In this class, we’ll leap forward in the ways that Brecht’s poem encourages us to sing about the darkness. We’ll write the known grief of the world, and its remedies. We’ll explore the delights and perils of literal darkness. We’ll write poems of resistance and resilience, inspired by broad explorations of themes well known to poets: the moon, night life, insomnia, dreams and more. This class is mostly generative in nature, so expect to do as much reading as fits in your schedule, a tiny bit of discussion, and a lot of writing, the work born of our sorrows and strengths to be shared and cheered on by our weekly live readarounds, and through light comments on Wet.Ink.
July Jumpstarts
2 weeks of live Google Meet jumpstarts with prompts, quick-writes and a pdf full of extras to recharge your daily writing routine.
*Join us for all or just a few of these sessions! Everyone who registers will receive the pdf with prompts and extras at the end of our two weeks together.
$50 / $25 for 1st Time Jumpstarters
Sarah note: If the reduced rate would enable you to join us, please use that link. No questions asked! <3
Growing Potatoes in the Dark: Structure & Surprise in Narrative Poems
Storytelling is one of the deepest of human urges. It is why we write, and why we have literature and art. For a reader, reading a poem is a transformative experience in two ways: the reader apprehends the what of the poem (its content, its story) and inhabits the how of the poem (its structure, its form). In this three-hour craft immersion, we’ll examine how storytelling happens in a number of exemplary poems—how story and structure come into gorgeous dynamic. We will pay especially close attention to structure, what it is, and how it can be flexibly used in poems. Additionally, we’ll look at surprise and the way it intensifies a reader’s sense of illumination. Our discussion will be in service, of course, to your own poems and the strategies of craft you might bring to them.
ABOUT Rick:
Rick Barot is the author of Moving the Bones. He was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. His previous books are The Darker Fall, which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Want, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and Chord, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. His fourth book of poems The Galleons was published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. It was listed on the top ten poetry books for 2020 by the New York Public Library, was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Awards, and was on the longlist for the National Book Award. Barot has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry. In 2020, Barot received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He teaches at Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Tacoma, Washington. More at rickbarot.com.
$50 full / $25 scholarship
Sarah note: If the scholarship rate would enable you to join us, please use that link. No questions asked! These seats are funded by donations to Poet Camp by Nicelle Davis and other Poet Campers. Please pay what you’re able! <3