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Poetry for Absolute Beginners
Seven Monday Sessions
10:00 -12:00 EST
Dates: 1/26 – 3/16 (OFF 2/16)
If you’ve ever felt the tug toward poetry, this workshop is a gentle place to begin. Through imaginative prompts and playful exploration, you’ll craft poems of all sorts while learning forms like the haiku, sonnet, pantoum, and sestina. You’ll be introduced to some techniques such as enjambment, figurative language, rhyme, and meter. Expect a joyful, encouraging space where everyone’s voice matters. No prior experience—just bring your curiosity.
In this course you can expect to
- Write 7-10 poems in different forms.
- Receive supportive feedback from instructor and classmates.
- Experience the joy of creativity in writing!
- Express your deepest emotions and the ideas that matter most to you through
- poetry.
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Meet the Instructor
Christine Pakkala
Christine Pakkala is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA. She was a Fulbright Scholar (1994) in Helsinki, Finland, where she translated modern Finnish poetry. She taught 7th and 9th grade English at Horace Mann and has published essays in Salon, BrainChild and Serendipity and is the 2013 winner of the Ladies Home Journal essay contest. She’s the author of Last-But-Not-Least Lola Going Green, which was the winner of the Santa Monica Public Library's Green Prize, and a novel for teens, Jasmine and Maddie, which was a VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocate) Top Shelf pick and a Bank Street Best Book.Christine is working on a memoir and the first chapter of it will be published as an essay in "The Seventh Wave", an arts and literary magazine this fall.
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