ALEXIS IVY’S WINTER 2023 WORKSHOPS

ZOOM & IN-PERSON JANUARY 10TH - APRIL 2ND

CLASSIC & SPECIALTY

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Each form (Formal & Untraditional) workshop will come with a “how-to” packet that has definitions, activities, and poem examples to review before we meet.  Our class will consist of discussing the themed form, tips in writing that form, and more in-depth discussions on published poems that use the style of our themed class.  We also will do a short activity as a group.  We then will workshop for the second half of class.  Bring a poem of yours with the workshop theme. The classes will be small so we can spend time with the teaching of these forms as well as pay closer attention to your work as a poem and as a structure during our time together. 

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FORMAL    Not one bit boring or tedious---traditional poems will be discussed and workshopped.   Villanelle, sonnet, pantoum, ghazal, palindrome, duplex, sestina, triolet.  You get the idea.  We are working with the rhymed and/or patterned tight knit poems. 

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UNTRADITIONAL   A poem can be anywhere you just need to find it, hone it, take it, break it!  Use forms such as persona, ekphrasis, erasure, found poem, cento Make art on the page or create a hidden poem within your poem. Bring anything without rhyme or pattern that has something to it.  Acrostic, concrete, golden shovel, abecedarian, contrapuntal. 

 

 

GENERATIVE   The class will consist of a series of writing prompts-- lots of writing for new poem beginnings! This is the 'shop if you're looking to get some new material cooking.  Bring paper, a writing utensil and imagination.

 

 

DATES:

 

Regular workshops on Tuesdays, 7pm-9:30, all on Zoom, max of 8 participants

 

January 10, 24, 31, February 21, 28, March 14, 28

 

Form workshops, zoom and in person, max of 6 participants:

 

Tuesday January 17th 7pm-9:30 (zoom) FORMAL

Sunday January 29th 2pm-4:30 (in person) UNTRADITIONAL

Sunday February 26th 2pm-4:30 (in person) FORMAL

Tuesday March 21th 7pm-9:30 (zoom) UNTRADITIONAL

 

Generative workshops, zoom and in person, max of 8 participants:

 

Tuesday February 7th 7pm-9 (zoom)

Sunday April 2nd 2pm-4 (in person)

 

FEES:

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all 13 workshops (7 regulars, 4 forms, 2 generative):  $500

all 7 regular workshops: $300

      4 regular workshops: $180

all 6 specialty (4 forms, 2 generative): $300

      3 specialty (2 forms, 1 generative): $160

 

a la carte:

1 form workshop: $60

1 generative workshop: $45

1 regular workshop: $50

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