VIRTUAL COFFEEHOUSE: A POETRY SALON Chapbook Available
Ages 16-29
Summer 2021, Online
In this workshop, student fellows will come together twice a week on Zoom for literary conversation; to discuss influences and inspiration, to share their own work and that of favorite established poets, to experiment with new forms, to inspire and challenge each other as artists. Between meetings they’ll keep daybooks, daily diaries of impressions and discoveries drawn from their surroundings and from literature: quotations; snippets of conversation; brief notes on people, places, the weather; whatever they encounter that resonates with them. They’ll register with both the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Foundation to receive daily poems via email, and they’ll upload their own choices of material to a shared online folder. And they’ll write, every day for the full seven weeks, write and revise, shaping their experiences, refining their work; and through in-class readings and constructive critique, developing and defining their distinct voices. They’ll finish the term with at least three fully realized, polished poems and many additional pages of works in progress, hundreds of beautiful lines to return to. Final projects will be collected in a group chapbook, and shared on the program website and through a virtual exhibition. Limited to 8 student fellows.
Lucy Bucknell teaches film studies and screenwriting in the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. She is the founding director of Writing Outside the Fence, a writing program for the formerly incarcerated and their extended community.
