Poetry 3-Day Workshop

The Poetic Process Workshop: In this exploratory, generative three-day workshop, poet John Davis Jr. will take participants through the steps of invention, brainstorming, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing their own poems.

Topics will include: overcoming creative blocks, prewriting strategies and techniques, working from a prompt and finding your own, and polishing initial drafts for workshops and publication. Attendees will create, refine, and complete their own poems by day three of this multi-session workshop. Finished products will be suitable for submission to literary journals and similar magazines and venues. Individual space provided to allow for social distancing.

Instructor Bio: John Davis Jr. is a seventh-generation Floridian whose poetry has been published in dozens of literary venues internationally. His poems have been repeatedly nominated for the Pushcart Prize and other laurels, and his books, Middle Class American Proverb (Negative Capability Press, 2014) and Hard Inheritance (Five Oaks Press, 2016) have also been critically acclaimed. He teaches English, Literature, and Creative Writing for colleges in the Tampa Bay Area, and resides in Riverview.

Tuition: Fee: $75 Non-Members / $60 Members