Critique Workshop in Poetry with Kim Addonizio (IN PERSON at HVWC)

Bring copies of a poem you’re trying to wrestle into shape! We’ll discuss it with an eye elements of craft like imagery, metaphor, line, surprise—as well as to finding places it sings and comes alive, and especially to finding its beating center in order to help you shape it. We’ll talk about structure, revision, vulnerability, and inspiration.

Kim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her poetry has been translated into several languages. Addonizio’s awards include two fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim, two Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. Her latest books are a poetry collection, Mortal Trash (W.W. Norton), and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). Now We’re Getting Somewhere was published by W.W. Norton (March 2021). Exit Opera is forthcoming in September 2024.

EXIT OPERA will be out from Norton in September. Preorder it here at BOOKSHOP.ORG and support independent bookstores: https://bookshop.org/shop/kimaddonizio