ONLINE Resurrecting Your Darlings: Micro-Workshop to Salvage Failed Poems
Monday, January 26, 2026
9am-12pm PT | 10am-1pm MT | 11am-2pm CT | 12pm-3pm ET | 1pm-4pm AT
Instructor: Page Getz
MEMBER PRICE: $60.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $80.00
This generative workshop invites poets to demolish two “failed” poems, playing with the essence of the work through experimental forms including erasure, blackout and found poetry, connecting and juxtaposing the poet’s own emails, texts or letters for all original source material.
Most poets are haunted by at least one poem they just couldn’t get right. You know there is something there, but the nebula doesn’t go anywhere. This course takes a wrecking ball to those poems and mines the nebula, with an option to combined troublesome poetry, using playful generative prompts to find the essential joy of the poem.
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Whistling Fire, Apricity Magazine Atlanta Review, Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Anthology and her unpublished novel, After the Revolution We’ll All Wear Tiaras, was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.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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