Virtual Poetry Workshop with Pauletta Hansel

For our first quarterly workshop of 2024, we welcome poet and educator, Pauletta Hansel! She’ll lead a virtual workshop via Zoom and answer all your challenging questions about how to assemble a collection of poems.

“Developing Your Poetry Manuscript”

There are as many ways to organize a collection of poems as there are poets who write them. And yet there are strategies and principles that can be useful across these differences. “If you have a book of twenty-four poems, the book itself should be the twenty-fifth,” Robert Frost has been quoted as saying. Using this statement as a guide, Pauletta will offer various approaches she and other poets have used to create that cohesive whole, including the writing of poetic sequences. She will also provide resources for further study on the matter. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion, so come ready to talk about your struggles and successes in developing your own manuscript.

For our first quarterly workshop of 2024, we welcome poet and educator, Pauletta Hansel! She’ll lead a virtual workshop via Zoom and answer all your challenging questions about how to assemble a collection of poems.

Free for OPA members, $10 for non members.