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December 21, 2022
From: Fine Arts Work Center in ProvincetownWinter classes are now available for enrollment!
Our 24PearlStreet online writing program provides students with the opportunity to work on their craft wherever they are, year-round. Our virtual model combines convenience with the opportunity to work with prize-winning, esteemed faculty. Come create your best work alongside an inspiring community of artists.
Enjoy an 8-week workshop, led by Tupelo Press editor Kristina Marie Darling, on publishing your poetry manuscript. Take 1- or 4-week workshops with beloved returning faculty Dorianne Laux, Curtis Bauer, and Erika Wurth; or engage with exciting new faculty Ananda Lima and Dorothea Lasky.
In celebration of our launch, please enjoy a 15% holiday discount code*, WINTER23HOLIDAY to your selected course!
Perfecting the Book: A Workshop for Full-Length Poetry Manuscripts
January 16 - March 10, 2023
8-week asynchronous, Multi-Genre
This workshop will provide detailed feedback on individual poems, as well as offer students a variety of strategies for sequencing, structuring, sectioning, and titling a full-length poetry manuscript.
Translation & Theft—Looking Out to Write What Is Within: A Generative Workshop
January 30 - February 3, 2023
1-week asynchronous, Multi-genre
This generative workshop is designed to reveal the close relationship between literary translation and one's own writing practice.
Ekphrastic Writing - Live
February 20 - February 24, 2023
1-week asynchronous, Poetry
This class will be a week of immersion in ekphrastic writing (writing about, or inspired by, art). We will explore ekphrasis as an exercise of careful description of the artwork.
“Just wanted to send an email to express my thanks for such a wonderful course. It was truly an amazing week of learning and experimenting and play – and lots of poetry! I learned so much in those 10 hours – and have so many tools to take away with me to work on and improve my own writing and editing. I’m grateful that I got the chance to participate – and if you’re able to pass on my thanks to Dorianne [Laux] that would also be wonderful!”
-Sarah Grout, Poet
Scholarships for Asian American Writers
In partnership with Kundiman, an organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature, 24PearlStreet has allocated 7 scholarships, worth $600 each, for Asian-American writers to attend any Winter session workshop in 2023.
Featured Work by 24PearlStreet Faculty
Only as the Day is Long
by Dorianne Laux
selected by Rita Dove
Soon she will be no more than a passing thought,
a pang, a timpani of wind in the chimes, bent spoons
hung from the eaves on a first night in a new house
on a block where no dog sings, no cat visits
a neighbor cat in the middle of the street, winding
and rubbing fur against fur, throwing sparks.
Her atoms are out there, circling the earth, minus
her happiness, minus her grief, only her body’s
water atoms, her hair and bone and teeth atoms,
her fleshy atoms, her boozy atoms, her saltines
and cheese and tea, but not her piano concerto
atoms, her atoms of laughter and cruelty, her atoms
of lies and lilies along the driveway and her slippers,
Lord her slippers, where are they now?