Julie Bruck: Fearless Poetry Workshop

9 Thursdays, Spring Session 2016 (dates TBA),  7-9:30 p.m.
$215 members/$245 others    San Francisco
Testimonials for Julie

CLASS CLOSED for Winter Session 2016. Will be offered again in the 2016 Spring Session that starts in April of 2016.

This workshop is intended for people who want to jump start their poetry practice and to keep the engine oiled. You’ll do plenty of writing and reading, and have lively discussions  about both the craft and the process of poetry.

The weekly homework assignments (workshopped the following week) are designed to provide fresh angles of approach that can suprise, even startle, both the writer and his/her readers.  “We all get stuck in ruts,” Julie says, “and the class offers ways of digging ourselves out, whether we use these strategies to simply get started at writing or to revise a particularly challenging poem.”

The class is suitable for a wide spectrum of people. “We’ve had students with an interest in poetry but no experience writing it, and others with MFA’s from Iowa, and it’s always been a good mix”, says Julie. “The focus of the class is generative–to get everybody going and excited about doing new work, to take away strategies that can help with their current and future writing–and to have a great time while we’re at it.”

NOTE: Julie also teaches our six-month “Persistent Poets Continuation class” class for those who have taken the Fearless Poetry Workshop once (or more than once), and would like to keep their momentum going, but on a monthly rather than weekly basis.

Julie Bruck  is the author of three books of poetry from Canada’s Brick Books, Monkey Ranch (2012), The End of Travel (1999), and The Woman Downstairs (1993). Her work has appeared in such magazines as Ms, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker, and her awards include two Gold Canadian National Magazine Awards, and the 2012 Governor General’s Award for poetry (the Canadian equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize). She has taught at several Canadian universities, and was a resident faculty member at The Robert Frost Place. She has an MFA from Warren Wilson, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and the Canada Council. A former Montrealer, she has lived in San Francisco since 1997, and has taught poetry workshops at the Writing Salon for eight years. For more information: http://www.juliebruck.com.