Event

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Matt Miller

Advanced Poetry Workshop: This will be a workshop for poets who already have work in progress and are looking to work with fellow poets in a collaborative way to prepare their work for publication. We will discuss formal elements like line, syntax, diction, image, and even rhyme and meter as we try to find improve our poems. We will read other poets as models, we will consider major revision techniques, dive into some in-class generative writing, and wonder if a poem can ever really be done. We will discuss, as well, publication and the submission process. Participants should come with generous spirits and a willingness to work.

Matt W. Miller was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts and is the author of The Wounded for the Water (2108, Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus, selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner, and Cameo Diner: Poems (Loom Press). He earned a BA at Yale University, where he also played varsity football, and his MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Emerson College and has published poems and essays in Slate, Harvard Review, Narrative Magazine, Notre Dame Review, Southwest Review, crazyhorse, Third Coast, The Rumpus, and Poetry Daily, among other journals. He was winner of the 2015 River Styx Micro-fiction Prize and Iron Horse Review's 2015 Trifecta Poetry Prize and is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He is a former Visiting Professor of Writing at New England College and has taught writing workshops at Stanford University, the University of Massachusetts, Harvard Extension, Endicott College, and the New Hampshire State Prison for Men. He teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy.