ONLINE The Mysticism of Poetry
8 Weeks | Tuesdays | Begins April 29, 2025
12pm-2pm PT | 1pm-3pm MT | 2pm-4pm CT | 3pm-5pm ET | 4pm-6pm AT
Instructor: Page Getz
MEMBER PRICE: $300.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $400.00
This is an 8-week online poetry course combining an independent daily practice with in-class writing exercises and workshops centered around using poetry as a means of translating social, psychological and political angst into poetry. It emphasizes the relationship of poets to social movements in shaping and being shaped by the Zeitgeist.
Every week we will have a theme or inspiration point. After reading related poems, students will be given two prompts to choose from or combine. For example, students will be invited to play with writing their own generation’s Howl, playing with specificity, meditating on the visceral trappings and intersections they represent in the context of their/our generation.
Outside class, students are asked to maintain a guided daily practice as a poetry journal-of-sorts using guided prompts, to be collected in an online or physical collection, portions of which can be shared on a discussion board, allowing students to draw from these low-stakes experiments as a starting point for poetry. This process will culminate in the a final collection or a mini- chapbook, with a selection shared in our final zoom salon.
This class takes place online using Zoom.
Page Getz is an author and former journalist from California, where she worked for the Los Angeles Times and Pacifica Radio. She was raised in Kansas, which drove her to fiction. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, where she served as a New Shoots anthology editor and mentor. Her novel, A Town with Half the Lights On, is slated for release by Sourcebooks in April 2025. Her work appears in Tidal Basin Review, Vermillion, Spectrum, Whistling Fire, Apricity Magazine Atlanta Review, Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Anthology and her unpublished novel, After the Revolution We’ll All Wear Tiaras, was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Obsessed with yoga, socialism and penguins, she lives in Vancouver with her family and a constant procession of animals, not including penguins, but maybe someday.
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