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Richard Jackson

Generating Poems
One-Week Workshop
June 8–13

Biography

Generating Poems
One-Week Workshop
June 8–13

In this workshop, we will write and complete 3-5 poems during the week. That may sound like a lot, but we have done something like it the last few summers, and it has been both fun and productive. We’ll look at a lot of poems from poets around the world and try some brief and extended exercises. I will also tailor the class to individual needs so that if you are working on haiku, or long poems, or narratives—any sort of project—we will find time to talk about that in our class. In that context, I want you to leave with some sort of project that will help you continue after our workshop. The aim here is to stimulate new and exciting ideas for your own writing. You’ll get a revised version of a CD I’ve put together with a huge anthology of poems from around the world, essays and exercises, all free as part of the course. We’ll also use a regular printed anthology of world poems.

Biography
Richard Jackson is the author of nine books of poems, most recently Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems, Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems, Heartwall, and Svetovi Narazen. He is also the author of a limited edition small press book, Falling Stars: A Collection of Monologues, and Richard Jackson: Greatest Hits, as well as several chapbooks of translations. His poems have been translated into a dozen languages and have appeared in The Best American Poetry, among others. He has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetry: The Fire Under the Moon and Double Vision: Four Slovenian Poets and edits an eastern European chapbook series, Poetry Miscellany and mala revija. He is the author of a book of criticism, Dismantling Time in Contemporary American Poetry, and Acts of Mind: Interviews With Contemporary American Poets. His several dozen essays and reviews have appeared in Georgia Review, Verse, Contemporary Literature, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and numerous other journals and anthologies. In 2000 he was awarded the Order of Freedom Medal for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans by the President of Slovenia. He teaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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Last updated on January 10, 2008