TAKE AN ONLINE POETRY COURSE WITH ME!

Hi TUMBLRarians! 

I’m teaching an online poetry course.
I want the chance to read & write poems with you.
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Poems that Don’t Suck:

An Intensive Reading, Writing & Performance Course

with Megan Falley

Course Outline

Course Creator

Megan Falley received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 2010. In addition to her full length collection of poetry, After the Witch Hunt, released by Write Bloody Publishing in 2012, her work has appeared in PANK, Muzzle, Vinyl, The Legendary, The Literary Bohemian, The Nervous Breakdown, decomP, >kill author, Union Station Magazine, Danse Macabre, and several anthologies. She is a nationally acclaimed performance poet who has represented NYC’s LouderArts Slam Team, has toured the country and Canada delivering electrifying performances of her own work for appreciative audiences, as well as teaching the spoken word in High Schools and Universities alike. Falley is perhaps most celebrated for her ability to transcend the divide of “stage” and “page” poetry, creating work that has a home in both categories. Her objective is to help other writers excel in both worlds of poetry that academia and spoken word artists often try to polarize.

Objectives:

In this course you will read a lot of poetry that doesn’t suck, and listen to poets who read their work in a way that doesn’t suck. You will be given three writing prompts each week, both subject and language based, to help get you out of a sucky writing funk. You will learn sustainable editing and revision practices to keep your work from not sucking long after the class is over. You will receive valuable feedback from the course creator and your classmates on both writing and performance. In the end you should except to have at least ten new poems that don’t suck, and you will be asked to submit some of them to online publications. Because being published doesn’t suck either. And this class won’t suck. It will actually be quite delicious.

To Apply:

Send an e-mail to meganfalley@gmail.com with the subject line “Poems That Don’t Suck: Application.”
Include the following in your e-mail: Your name, your experience in writing poetry/performing poetry/reading poetry, the title and author of your favorite poem, and include the text of what you believe to be your best written poem to date.
Classes are from May 6th – July 22nd 2013.
Classes will cap off at 12 students.
You will need to create a Google Plus account and have access to a web cam.
Classes are $12 each. There are 12 weeks of class. Please send the total cost, $144 on PayPal to MeganFalley@gmail.com. This is my preferred method of payment, though I will also accept check and credit card. Please let me know how I can make a payment plan work for you.

Syllabus:

Week One:  An Introduction to Not Sucking

            A Comprehensive Lecture on Avoiding the Suck

Week Two:  Who Am I and Why Am I Here?

            Identity Poems That Don’t Suck

Week Three: I Read the Huffington Post

            Political Poems That Don’t Suck

Week Four: Daddy Issues

Family Poems That Don’t Suck

Week Five: Your Eyes Are Not Like Oceans

            Love Poems That Don’t Suck

Week Six:  I Sound Better in the Shower

            Performance Workshop # 1

Week Seven: Putting the ART in Fart

Funny Poems That Don’t Suck

Week Eight: A Stanza in Their Shoes

             Persona Poems That Don’t Suck

Week Nine: Are Those Antlers on Your Head

    or Are You Just Happy to Be Swimming?

             Magical Realism Poems That Don’t Suck

Week Ten: Not Your Hero

            Poems in Which You Might Suck a Little.

Week Eleven: Singing Into Your Hairbrush

            Performance Workshop # 2

Week Twelve: There’s No Place Like Poem

            Finding a place for your work through submission, self-publishing, performing at your local scene and YouTube.