Joy & Delight: Poems that Energize & Excite (Aran Donovan)

This class will meet online for 8 sessions on Tuesdays from 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, March 25 through May 13th.

Description:

At times of intense emotion, we often turn to poetry. Whether it’s an elegy or epithalamium, poetry helps us put words to our situation and share our feelings with others. In this eight-week, online class, participants will read across a broad spectrum of poetry, workshop their poems, and write in response to poetry prompts. More specifically, we’ll look at poems that share joy and delight or that find solace and a silver lining during turbulent moments. In the first four classes, we’ll generate poems. In the remaining four classes, we’ll workshop poems. This virtual class is scheduled for Tuesdays, from 6:30-8:00 pm This class is for intermediate-advanced students who have taken at least three poetry classes at a literary education center.

About the Instructor:

Aran Donovan is Assistant Director for the Virginia Center for the Book, where she works with both the Festival of the Book and Book Arts. She holds an MFA in Poetry and Translation from the University of Arkansas and an MA in Italian from Middlebury Summer Language Schools. She has attended residencies at the Edward A. Albee Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2013, Rattle, New Orleans Review, The Common, Willow Springs, and Juked. She has lived in Italy, France, New Mexico, and New Orleans, but Virginia is starting to feel like home.