Instructor: Peter Campion
June 10 - 14
Monday - Friday
11am – 1pm
5 Sessions
ONLINE VIA ZOOM

This class is for people who want to write new poems and revise older poems. We’ll work to understand the art more fully, from the inside out, by exploring formal elements such as action, voice, sentence, phrase, line, sound, and metaphor. 

We’ll also discuss the sources of poetry in our own experience. I’ve taught this course at Castlehill for more than a decade now and am always impressed by how writers in the class—some who’ve already published books and others who are writing poems for the first time—find inspiration and wonder both in the life stories and the aesthetic techniques we examine. That’s the energy we’ll tap during our week together, in an atmosphere of support and encouragement. 

Peter Campion is the author of four collections of poems and the essay collection Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry, as well as several monographs and catalog essays on modern and contemporary painters. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, he teaches in the writing program at the University of Minnesota and serves as Executive Editor of Unbound Edition Press.