In this 6-week workshop you will find inspiration, play, experiment with new forms and generative exercises, explore the craft of poetry, create and edit new work, and share and receive feedback, support, and encouragement.
This class is open to all levels of writers and all styles of poetry. Whether you’re already a published poet or a you’ve never written a poem, this is an opportunity to establish, re-establish, or deepen your writing practice, find your way onto the page, learn new techniques and forms, and connect to a thriving local writing community.
Instructor: Hollie Hardy
Hollie Hardy can teach you how to survive anything. Her poetry collection, "How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems" has titles ruthlessly appropriated from The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Punk Hostage Press, 2014). She is an English instructor at Berkeley City College and former lecturer at San Francisco State University, where she also received her Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry. An active participant in the local Bay Area literary scene, Hardy hosts the popular monthly reading series, Saturday Night Special, An East Bay Open Mic, produces Oakland's Beast Crawl Literary Festival, and curates of Flight of Poets at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art.
https://www.holliehardy.com