To live with authenticity in these times is to live with and within the questions of how to unmake and remake (our) selves as we witness unspeakable catastrophe
When you see the word fierce, do you imagine a wild animal with its fangs bared, maybe blood dripping from them? Fierce Writing is not violent, but it is wild.
In this class, we will practice both radical and focused revision strategies while reading and discussing the work of published poets, pre- and post-revision.
How do longer poems get written? Often connections between what we write emerge over a period of time. One way is to consider the longer poem is a "collage".