Throughout the calendar year the Poetry Center offers non-credit creative writing workshops as well as classes and seminars on poetics, poetry movements and individual poets. Courses are taught by visiting and local writers, including University of Arizona faculty, and are held in the evenings and on weekends.
The easiest way to register for Classes & Workshops is online.
Need help selecting the right course? Contact Cybele Knowles at knowles@email.arizona.edu or 520-626-1185.
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Six Class Meetings: Mondays, June 4 through July 9 from 6 to 8 p.m.
“Myths are things that never happened but always are.” —Sallustius, 4th century A.D.
Contemporary writers urge us to write stories bearing truths more real and illuminating than the realities we live through. The ancestors of these “true” stories are myths, sacred stories that establish models for behavior,...
Four class meetings: June 18, 21, 25, and 28 from 6 to 8 p.m.
What to do with the poem that isn’t quite right? And how not to merely salvage the poem but to transform it, allowing you to see the subject anew and to write, as Robert Frost said, “what you didn’t know you knew”? In this class we will explore eight methods of revision, accessible to beginners yet relevant to advanced...
Two class meetings: Saturday and Sunday, July 21 and 22
9 a.m to 5 p.m. (one-hour lunch break)
The Poetry Center is excited to offer this letterpress workshop in partnership with the School of Art. Over one weekend, students will learn the basics of letterpress printing through the process of handsetting and printing a short excerpt from an original poem on Vandercook Proof presses. Copies of the printed works will then be exchanged and...
