Online workshop! “Prosody & Revision” led by David Koehn!
             “Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.”
              Robert Hayden

Are you interested in a course that will give you tools to enact for yourself new ways to enliven your writing? Tools that will continue to evolve with you, as you continue to follow your own trajectory?

             In this course you’ll discover compelling strategies for inspired revision, augmented by ideas for how to break formal traditions in new ways that reflect and extend your creative repertoire.
            You'll also discover unique strategies for inspired revision, augmented by ideas for how to break formal traditions in new ways that reflect and extend your individual trajectory.
             Each week, we will feature a short talk by a guest poet, followed by a Q&A; each poet will share with candor the creative directions, the risks, the challenges, they each face in their own work. Here is the list:
 

week one, 10/26 

Lisa Rosenberg – sonnet

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week two, 11/2 

Maria Nazos – sestina

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week three, 11/9 

Maw Shein Win – thought logs

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week four, 11/16 

Randall Mann – pantoum

 

The meeting times are every Sunday.

Everyone is together for the first hour from 10am to 11am, Pacific.

Section one from11am to12pm Pacific Time

(one hour for lunch)

Section two from1pm to 2pm Pacific Time

for 4 weeks,

from October 26 to November 16, 2024

             Writers taking this online course will benefit from having a poem of theirs (of their choice) discussed (workshopped) each week by David Koehn and Rusty Morrison.


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Everyone who has submitted to an Omnidawn Contest is eligible for 20 percent off the class fees.

Space is limited; enrollment decisions will be made on a first come, first served basis. Last day to apply:
Saturday, October 25, 2025, unless the class fills before the deadline.


To apply for this class:
             Please send us 5 page sample of finished poems. These poems will give us an evaluative appreciation of your work & a sense of your approach to writing. These are not poems that you would then need to bring to the weekly workshop (unless that is what you'd want to do; it's always up to you to decide what poem to bring to workshop).

Tuition: Sliding Scale: $550 - $650
             (90% of which is tax-deductible, donated to Omnidawn Publishing, a fiscally sponsored 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization)

             SOME PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: write to Rusty Morrison (rusty@omnidawn.com) for scholarship information, and to let us know why you need one.

             More information on our website here:
             https://www.omnidawn.com/breaking-the-bowl-a-new-organic-forms-class-led-by-david-koehn/