September 2-October 7.
7:00-9:00 pm on Zoom.
$295.
A six-week exploration of themes that reveal different types of poems alongside exercises and group feedback — all meant to delight, inspire, and motivate! Topics to be explored include: kindness as a motif, “clapback” poems which respond to another poem, the poem as herbarium/florilegium, “a poem can do that?” the use of constraint, and expanding poetry into other mediums.
About Instructor
Elline Lipkin is a poet, nonfiction writer, and academic. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and a PhD in Creative Writing. Currently a Research Scholar with UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women, she has taught at a range of colleges and universities, including UC Berkeley, Scripps College, and Chapman University. Her first book, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Kore Press First Book Award. Her second book, Girls’ Studies, is part of the Seal Studies series and explores contemporary girlhood in America. She has been in residence at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony and was a California Resident at Yefe Nof. Her poems and critical essays have been published widely. In 2019 and 2020 she served on the selection committee for the Kate & Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards. From 2016-2018, she was the Poet Laureate of Altadena and co-editor of the Altadena Poetry Review.
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