Lousy first draft to sparkling final draft: how to get there? This generative workshop will focus on coming up with new poem ideas, and how to edit them into their best shape, with an eye toward possible publication. Among the strategies we will play with are finding the best form for each poem; using line breaks and stanza breaks; finding the best beginning and ending; cutting extraneous words for maximum effect; and always finding the best word. Please feel free to bring along copies of up to four older poems that you would like to work on, though this is not necessary.
Barbara Ungar is the author of six books, most recently After Naming the Animals (The Word Works, 2024). Her honors include winning the Snyder Publication Prize, Gival Poetry Prize, The Adirondack Center for Writing Best Poetry Book Award (twice), and being named to Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Books of 2015 and 2019. She has published poems in Scientific American, Rattle, Southern Indiana Review and many other journals. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Bulgarian. She taught creative writing for over thirty years at The College of Saint Rose in Albany and at various branches of CUNY. See more information at www.barbaraungar.net.
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