Dara Wier

About:

Many of you've participated in workshops for writers that are good honest ways for poets to view their work in sudden public venues. This new workshop will upset the workshop applecart in order to view your work in a new light. There will be no line editing, no revising in public, no using your work for practicing editing. Instead you'll be invited to bring in two poems a day, one new one by you, one by a poet you admire. We'll investigate how writing and reading go hand in hand to surprise us with new points of view. We'll look closely at titles, language, sentences, passages of logic, and endings (endings which if they're any good will be beginnings) This adventure will have to do with what you bring into the conversation. (three hours of workshop, with private consultations available)

Requirements:

This workshop is open to poets of all levels of experience. Workshop participants may submit up to nine pages of poetry (in advance, by email).

Biography:

Dara Wier was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Recent books include Remnants of Hannah and Reverse Rapture (awarded the Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives Book Award). A Selected Poems is forthcoming from Wave Books. Her poems can be found in Pushcart, Best American Poetry, Norton, Soft Skull and various other anthologies, and in American Poetry Review, Conduit, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, slope, Turnrow, New American Review, Volt. A limited edition, (X In Fix), is in RainTaxi's Brainstorm series. The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the American Poetry Review have supported her work. She's a member of the poetry faculty and director of the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and co-director of the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action. About Reverse Rapture, Stephen Rodefer writes "...a paratactic and sometime screened poetic narrative of thought, time, room, face, secrets, address, body, relations, religion, casual philosophy, the domestic, demons and the demotic, language and much else-- in a steady unfolding of distanced but under your skin mind-forms." With Guy Pettit and Emily Pettit, she edits and publishes chapbooks and broadsides for Factory Hollow Press.