Poetry Workout

Write On, Door County announces a special daylong class for aspiring and established poets with poet and editor Kathryn Kysar on Nov. 22, 10 am – 3 pm.

Intended for poets of all levels, this workshop will energize, invigorate and strengthen your poetry through a fun day of poetic exercises. After reviewing the components of a good poem, we will read a few master poems then generate new work by writing from music and models, using prompts and cut up, experimenting with chance and substitution, perhaps even blending poetic voices as a group. New poems will be shared but not critiqued. Participants will leave with several new poems. Bring a pen along with several copies of drafts of poems.

Kysar is the author of two books of poetry, Dark Lake and Pretend the World, and editor of the anthology Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Oberholtzer Foundation. Her poems have been heard on “A Writer’s Almanac” and have appeared in anthologies such as To Sing Along the Way and Good Poems, American Places. She co-chairs the creative writing program at Anoka-Ramsey Community College and reviews books for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

A light lunch is provided. Class enrollment is limited to 10. Cost for the class is $85. For more information or to register, call 920.868.1457 or email [email protected].