Instructor: Charles Coe
Monday - Friday
August 12 - 16
1pm - 4pm
5 sessions
This workshop features writing prompts, exercises and discussions of the craft. There will also be opportunities to discuss work you produce during the workshop and writing you’ve done previously. The workshop is intended for poets and prose writers, both experienced and newer. The week will be an excellent opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and develop new tools and strategies in an informal, fun, and supportive atmosphere.
Charles Coe is the author of three books of poetry: All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents, Picnic on the Moon, and Memento Mori, all published by Leapfrog Press. A fourth volume, Purgatory Road, will be released by Leapfrog in Spring of 2023. He is also author of Spin Cycles, a novella published by Gemma Media. Charles was selected as a Boston Literary Light by the Boston Public Library and is a former artist fellow at the St. Botolph Club in Boston. A short film by filmmaker Roberto Mighty, “Peach Pie,” was based on his poem, “Fortress”. Another short film, “Charles Coe: Man of Letters,” was named “Outstanding Documentary Short” at the 2020 Roxbury Film Festival. His poems have been set by composers Kitty Brazelton, Beth Denisch, Paul Frucht, and Robert Moran. Charles was a 2017 artist-in-residence for the city of Boston, where he created an oral history project focused on residents of Mission Hill. He is poetry editor of the literary journal Multiplicity, and associate editor of About Place, an online literary journal published by Black Earth Institute. Charles has served as poet-in-residence at Wheaton College, the Newton Public Schools, and the Chautauqua Institution. He is an adjunct professor of English at Salve Regina University and Bay Path University, where he teaches in MFA programs. He serves on the Steering Committee of The National Writers Union and is also on the Board of Directors of The New England Poetry Club and of Revolutionary Spaces, the organization that manages programs at Boston’s Old South Meeting House and Old State House, site of the Boston Massacre.
