This workshop is intended to help poets help themselves. It will offer concrete strategies for sustained writing when the only teacher available is a book. We will explore the ways inventive imitation can lead to poetic discovery and innovation. Daily writing assignments will include discussing then "shadowing" published poems from a variety of styles and traditions. Come prepared to generate and share work written during the workshop. Poems will be discussed not for their merit as imitations, but for their originality and potential.
Professor of Creative Writing, Carnegie Mellon University
· Wind in a Box
· Hip Logic
· Muscular Music
Hayes has received a Whiting Writers Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a National Poetry series award, a Pushcart Prize, two Best American Poetry selections, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
