Follow Your Process: An Online Poetry Class (Margaret McKinnon)

This seminar will meet online via Zoom for six sessions on Wednesdays, February 4 through March 11 from 1:00 to 3:30 PM.

Description:

Part of committing to poetry as a writing path involves becoming more aware of one’s process, along with understanding the interests and concerns of other poets. In this six-week online class, writers will share their work and also learn more about their own processes through reading and discussing the work of others. Our time together will primarily be spent focused on poems by class members, but each week, we will also be looking at themes or techniques in the work of other writers. Members of the class will have an opportunity to gain insight into their own writing through supportive feedback. Looking at the work of other writers, we will also consider how their poems can inspire us and perhaps shape our own progress as poets.  

About the Instructor:

Margaret Mackinnon is the author of two collections of poetry, The Invented Child (Silverfish Review Press 2013), winner of the 2014 Literary Award in Poetry from the Library of Virginia, and Afternoon in Cartago (Ashland Poetry Press 2022), winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. Her work has appeared in The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Image, Poetry, Blackbird, and other journals. She attended Vassar College and the University of North Carolina, and she received her MFA in poetry from the University of Florida. She lives with her family in Richmond.