Generative Poetry with Gabrielle Bates
This is a poetry workshop focused on reading, discussing, and generating new work. No manuscripts to submit ahead of time! All you have to do is show up excited to read poems together, write in response to prompts, and occasionally share your work—if you want—for encouraging feedback.
Each Day
We will read together a selection of poems, intentionally curated by the instructor on particular themes, and discuss what we find interesting, inspiring, curious, and alive in terms of content and form. We will also spend time writing new drafts in response to a range of prompts. In each class meeting, there will be time for participants to share what they've written, if they choose.
Preparation
n/a
Supplies
The only supplies necessary to this class are something to write with and something to write on.
Experience Level
This class is for anyone interested in expanding and deepening their engagement with poetry as a reader and a writer. Prompts will be designed with a range of experience levels in mind. Whether it's your first poetry class or your 100th, this workshop is for you.
About the Instructor
Gabrielle Bates's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, and Kenyon Review. Her debut collection, Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR and Electric Lit and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry. Originally from Alabama, Bates is currently based in the Pacific Northwest, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon, and serves occasionally as visiting faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center and the Tin House Writers' Workshops.