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Sign up today for Stevie Edwards’ 2026 Multi-Week Workshop!
Check out more from Stevie in her poetry collection, SADNESS WORKSHOP
The Art of Detail
This class will look at detail as an essential element of writing poetry. Each week will include assigned readings that give examples of writing lushly with details that create embodiment and a vivid picture for the reader. In our virtual sessions, we will discuss the assigned poems, respond to writing prompts, and have time to workshop poems written prior to the session by participants. We will look at poems by Diamond Forde, Fatimah Asghar, Natalie Diaz, Chen Chen, and many others, including some older writers from the literary canon like Emily Dickinson and William Carlos Willliams.
Previous Courses by Stevie Edwards:
Fascination Detectives: A Poetry Workshop (w/ Stevie Edwards)
Part of being a poet is seeing the world through wonder-seeking eyes. It’s being present and mindful and ready to engage with the world around you. This class is designed to encourage its participants to be radically present and constantly noticing the world around them, whether it’s a heart-faced praying mantis or a cool indie film that just came out. Each week will include a handful of poems centering on a theme that’s meant to encourage participants to seek out inspiration in their daily lives. Themes will include poems about mindfulness; poems responding to the news; poems about myths, religious texts, and folklore; poems responding to visual art, poems about wonder, and poems responding to films and songs. Sessions will be broken into two parts: the first half of the session will be discussing assigned poems and completing short writing exercises. The second half of the session will be a workshop following Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. Students will submit work ahead of each workshop so that their peers have a chance to review it ahead of time.
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About Stevie Edwards
Stevie Edwards holds a PhD in creative writing from University of North Texas and an MFA in poetry from Cornell University. Stevie’s poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She is a Lecturer… MORE
