Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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Our weekly workshop for intermediate poets looking to develop their work.

* This course will take place on the video-conferencing platform ZOOM * 

This is a course suitable for intermediate writers who want to improve their skills and develop new work. Each week, we will read and discuss your poems-in-progress, developing familiarity with each other’s work and offering detailed feedback with the aim of moving your writing forward. There will also be opportunities to discuss the work of published poets and issues in contemporary poetry. Through exercises and group feedback, you will be encouraged to construct an independent voice and to develop confidence both in shaping your work and in defending it. 

10 weekly Zoom sessions on Fridays, 2–4pm (BST), starts 19 May 2023.  To apply for a concession rate, please send relevant documentation showing your eligibility for one of our concessions to [email protected] Conditions of eligibility are detailed here. More information about how our Video Courses work can be found on the Video Courses page. If you have any questions or wish to be added to the waiting list of a sold-out course, please email [email protected] 

About Natasha Hakimi Zapata View Profile

Natasha Hakimi Zapata is a poet, journalist, university lecturer, and literary translator whose work has appeared on The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, In These Times, and elsewhere. She has received numerous awards for her creative writing, journalism, and literary criticism, and holds a Creative Writing M.F.A. from Boston University and both a B.A. in Spanish and a B.A. in English with a creative writing concentration from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2016, Literal Publishing released full-length bilingual editions of her translations of Alicia Borinsky’s My Husband’s Woman and Liliana Lukin’s Theater of Operations. Follow her on Facebook or Twitter at @natashakimiz.

'I have discovered more poetry than I knew existed.'

- Spring 2022 survey response

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