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Poetry Boot Camp 2010 www.mollyfisk.com |
| Poetry Boot Camp™ is a quick way to jumpstart your writing, improve your poems and overcome writer’s block — in only six days. During the camp you’ll generate six new poems. You’ll learn more about poetry by critiquing other poets and having your own work critiqued. In addition, you’ll get the nurturing and support that comes from being part of a family of poets — sharing the experience with people who are working as hard on their writing as you are. The critiquing is kind but honest, giving participants a safe place to show new poems and some ideas about improving them. The excitement of reading and writing new work pushes people through the barriers they may be up against in their writing. This is a great place to try different things: going deeper into tough subjects, experimenting with new forms, exploring different voices. People pick up ideas from each others’ poems, too, and are inspired to try new approaches to their own work. Whether you write all the time and want more of a community, or can’t find time to write and want a tough deadline, Poetry Boot Camp™ will help. If you’re a beginner and want more exposure to poetry, you’ll get it here. If you’re an experienced poet and want to push yourself, this is a good place to do it. How It Works: Each camp is organized in groups of up to ten poets. Participants write a poem every day for six days and e-mail it to everyone else. Participants are assigned one poem of someone else’s to critique every day. Molly critiques everyone’s poem every day. Requirements: Basic e-mail skills and commitment. This workshop is intense. You can hold down a job and participate, but it’s hard to do the writing if you have many other outside obligations. Please make sure your schedule is clear and you’re willing to finish before you sign up. Beginning through experienced poets are welcome. |
| "I think the on-line format is perfect for poetry workshops - I like not having to go anywhere, I like that it's on my time, and I like the quick feedback. It was a Great Experience and I thank you and the others for it."
- D. A. "I'm loving these deadlines. Every day...I've gone through a slump with each poem, at which point I would probably, in civilian life, set it aside. Having to work through that is a very interesting process." - K. S. "I think Boot Camp is fabulously liberating. It jump starts my rather lazy self to produce, produce, produce!" - L. L. "You have such a sharp eye, Molly, it really is great the way you zoom into the places that need zooming; thanks!" - K. R. "Thank you for this - it is really really helpful. I feel very vulnerable writing a poem like this in a day, it needs time to settle. You've pinpointed so many important things. That's one of the reasons I keep coming back to Boot Camp: your critiques are so wonderful! So on target. I feel I can really count on you to give me serious feedback." - L. S. M. "Incredibly powerful and fun, but exhausting!! I loved having six new poems at the end of it." - M. M. "I'm seeing a definite improvement in my writing, which I didn't really see happening from poem to poem. I know it's because I've done several bootcamps and gotten good, clear feedback. It's braver now, and more truthful, and more precise." - L.F. |
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