Night Writer: Singing about the Dark Times

8 wks, MONDAY July 21 – SUNDAY September 21

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 begins.)

$350, 8 week course standalone

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.