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SUMMARY:Poetic Transformations: Revising as Re-Seeing
DESCRIPTION:Most poets move through a process of honing our work. We draft\, workshop\, revise\, and polish our poems. But what possibilities await if we reframe revision as transformation? \n\n\n\nThis workshop will build a new toolkit for revising poetry—one that valorizes artistic possibility over the idea of a single finished draft. Together\, we will embrace each poem’s power to contain and reveal multiple versions of itself—versions that can stand alone or in conversation. \n\n\n\nThrough generative exercises\, craft wisdom\, and workshop-style feedback\, we will inhabit poet and composition scholar Wendy Bishop’s idea of radical revision. Each week\, we will enact experiments on our work to shake us out of the poems we thought we knew and into new stylistic territory. By embracing revision as an act of re-seeing\, we will confound our own expectations\, deepen into the inherent promise of our work\, and slough off stale writerly habits. A delightful\, productive defamiliarization may result. \n\n\n\nIf you’ve ever felt stuck\, not known how to revise\, or felt too attached to a draft to change it\, this workshop is for you. If you’ve ever wanted to create an inventive sequence of poems stemming from a single impulse\, this workshop is for you. If you’ve ever wanted to turn your linguistic sandcastle into a lexical dragon or syllabic shore bird\, this workshop is for you. \n\n\n\nThe strategies you will learn are designed to serve you both within and beyond the workshop. You can expect to leave the workshop with a newly articulated\, personalized philosophy of revision. You might leave with 8 radically different versions of a single poem. You might leave with a whole new sequence of poems that could scaffold a collection. Regardless\, you will leave with some substantially revised poetry along with the concrete tools and feedback to make future revision a process of expansive growth. \n\n\n\nThe workshop is open to practicing poets of all levels — with the following caveats: \n\n\n\n1) you must already be writing and revising poems; \n\n\n\n2) you must be willing to abandon the idea of single finished version of any given poem; and \n\n\n\n3) you must bring 3 to 5 of your own poems that you are willing to revise beyond recognition.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetic-transformations-revising-as-re-seeing/2026-04-20/
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SUMMARY:Poetic Transformations: Revising as Re-Seeing
DESCRIPTION:Most poets move through a process of honing our work. We draft\, workshop\, revise\, and polish our poems. But what possibilities await if we reframe revision as transformation? \n\n\n\nThis workshop will build a new toolkit for revising poetry—one that valorizes artistic possibility over the idea of a single finished draft. Together\, we will embrace each poem’s power to contain and reveal multiple versions of itself—versions that can stand alone or in conversation. \n\n\n\nThrough generative exercises\, craft wisdom\, and workshop-style feedback\, we will inhabit poet and composition scholar Wendy Bishop’s idea of radical revision. Each week\, we will enact experiments on our work to shake us out of the poems we thought we knew and into new stylistic territory. By embracing revision as an act of re-seeing\, we will confound our own expectations\, deepen into the inherent promise of our work\, and slough off stale writerly habits. A delightful\, productive defamiliarization may result. \n\n\n\nIf you’ve ever felt stuck\, not known how to revise\, or felt too attached to a draft to change it\, this workshop is for you. If you’ve ever wanted to create an inventive sequence of poems stemming from a single impulse\, this workshop is for you. If you’ve ever wanted to turn your linguistic sandcastle into a lexical dragon or syllabic shore bird\, this workshop is for you. \n\n\n\nThe strategies you will learn are designed to serve you both within and beyond the workshop. You can expect to leave the workshop with a newly articulated\, personalized philosophy of revision. You might leave with 8 radically different versions of a single poem. You might leave with a whole new sequence of poems that could scaffold a collection. Regardless\, you will leave with some substantially revised poetry along with the concrete tools and feedback to make future revision a process of expansive growth. \n\n\n\nThe workshop is open to practicing poets of all levels — with the following caveats: \n\n\n\n1) you must already be writing and revising poems; \n\n\n\n2) you must be willing to abandon the idea of single finished version of any given poem; and \n\n\n\n3) you must bring 3 to 5 of your own poems that you are willing to revise beyond recognition.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetic-transformations-revising-as-re-seeing/2026-04-27/
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