Trying to move ahead on a chapbook or a full-length collection? Experienced poet and editor Sandra Beasley will offer tips on enhancing thematic cohesion and identifying your meta-text, including insights based on her experiences as a contest judge. We will discuss philosophies of ordering—with exemplars from a few significant collections shared using the Zoom interface—so please be prepared to read a few texts on screen. There will be time for Q&A at the end.

About Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley is the author of four poetry collections—Made to Explode (forthcoming 2021), Count the Waves, I Was the Jukebox (winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize), and Theories of Falling—as well as a memoir, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life. In 2018, she edited Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance. Honors for her work include a 2015 NEA fellowship and four D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities fellowships. She lives in Washington, D.C.

This workshop will be held on our online video conferencing platform, Zoom. The dates and times will remain the same. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here.