Get Inspired!: Poems and Poets to Light Up Your Writing
with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
This course includes:
37 inspiring poets, with selections, prompts, and resources for each.
12 in-depth poetry craft lectures.
12 exclusive handouts from living state poets laureate to further enrich your craft and perspective.
120+ poetry prompts inspired by important historical and contemporary poets.
Perfect If: You want to write inspired, transformative poetry.
Open To: Poets of all levels.
$149.00
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You’ll Leave This Course With:
- Inspiration and guidance to write powerful write new poetry.
- A deep connection with 37 great US poets—and your own place in their poetic lineages.
- Prompts, inspiration, and knowledge to write over 100 new poems.
Write new poetry inspired by US historical poets and poets laureate, while immersing yourself in poetry to transform your writing and life. Each week, you will study a new set of poets whose work has transformed the ecology of contemporary poetry, opening the door for new voices, ideas, and possibilities in language. The course prompts and lectures are designed not just to inspire you, but to help put you in lineage with some of the greatest American poets—helping you carry the torch of contemporary poetry.
Get Inspired!: Poems and Poets to Light Up Your Writing is a self-guided 12-unit course that helps you write great poetry by studying great poets. Each of the 12 units features the poetry and life stories of a state poet laureate, a U.S. or tribal poet laureate, and a historic poet who embodies the essence of their time and place in poetry. These units feature writing prompts inspired by each poet’s contributions to the canon.
Additionally, all of the state poets in this course have provided handouts on the craft and passion of writing with lots of lessons, exercises, and approaches for powerful writing. There are also guidelines on how to pace yourself in this class while growing your writing practice. Poets include: Joy Harjo, Walt Whitman, Sharon Olds, Rita Dove, Emily Dickinson, Li Young Lee, William Stafford, Muriel Rukeyser, Adrianne Rich, Juan Felipe Herrera, Wendell Berry, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shahib Nye, and more.
By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge, inspiration, and new drafts of poems to help stitch yourself into the fabric of contemporary poetry. Poets of all backgrounds and experience levels are encouraged to find inspiration in this course.
What’s Included:
Students in this course will receive:
- Thorough introductions to 37 inspiring poets, with poetry selections, prompts, and resources for each poet.
- 12 focused craft lectures on different key elements of poetry.
- 12 handouts from living state poets laureate to further enrich your craft and perspective.
- 120+ poetry prompts inspired by important historical and contemporary poets. (That’s at least 120 new poems for you to write!)
By the end of the course, you will also have a richer sense of how your poetry can explore, expand upon, and represent your values and contributions to our rich poetic legacy.
100% MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
If for any reason you are not satisfied with the course, you may request a full refund within 14 days, no questions asked.
This course includes:
37 inspiring poets, with selections, prompts, and resources for each.
12 in-depth poetry craft lectures.
12 exclusive handouts from living state poets laureate to further enrich your craft and perspective.
120+ poetry prompts inspired by important historical and contemporary poets.
Perfect If: You want to write inspired, transformative poetry.
Open To: Poets of all levels.
$149.00
$149.00Enroll Now
100% money-back guarantee for 14 days, no questions asked.
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Meet Your Instructor
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the 2009-2013 Poet Laureate of Kansas, a long-time transformative language artist, and the author or editor of 24 books, including poetry, memoir, fiction, non-fiction, and anthologies. As a poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, teacher, mentor, and facilitator, she explores and celebrates how the spoken, written and sung word can help us live more meaningful and vibrant lives. The founder of Transformative Language Arts, she values social and personal transformation through the spoken, written and sung word.
Caryn’s books include: How Time Moves: New and Selection Poems, Miriam’s Well (a novel), Needle In Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor and Polish Resistance Right Beat the Odds and Found Each Other (nonfiction), Chasing Weather: Tornadoes, Templest, and Thunderous Skies in Word and Image with photographer Stephen Locke, and The Sky Begins at Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body.