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2007 Seattle Poetry Festival Workshop: Poetry Revision

Richard Hugo House
Seattle, WA

Instructor Mary Jo Bang will discuss some of the basic tools of revision, and will lead a group discussion aimed at teaching students to revise their poems. Students should bring 12 copies of one of their poems to the workshop.

Max number participants: 10

Mary Jo Bang is the author of four books of poetry, including Louise in Love and The Eye Like a Strange Balloon. Her fifth book of poems, Elegy, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in October of 2007. Individual poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Verse, Fence, Denver Quarterly, two volumes of Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bakeless Prize, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. A graduate of the Columbia University MFA program, she is currently an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis.

Admission for the Seattle Poetry Festival is required in addition to your workshop ticket.

The Seattle Poetry Festival Opening Night Party and the Seattle Poetry Slam 2007 Grand Slam are seperately ticketed events:

2007 Seattle Poetry Festival

2007 Seattle Poetry Slam Opening Night Party

Seattle Poetry Slam's 2007 Grand Slam

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The Seattle Poetry Festival is supported by a grant under the Civic Partners program by the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

Note: You must purchase a Seattle Poetry Festival ticket in addition to your workshop ticket. Both ticket stubs must be presented to the instructor no later than 15 minutes prior to the workshop start time. After that, the workshop will be open to drop-in students for a $5 fee (plus ticket stub from Festival admission).

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

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