Poetry Workshop with Joseph Millar

12:00pm-3:00pm (Pacific Time)

Sat July 27th, 2024

This course will meet online via Zoom

In this virtual poetry writing workshop, poet Joseph Millar will conduct a generative writing course open to poets of all levels. Joe will lecture on poetry craft, and lead participants in writing exercises. Writers will generate new poems and receive feedback on work drafted during this workshop.

The registration fee is $150 for the workshop only, or $175 for the workshop plus a signed copy of Joe’s new book - Shine published by Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series, October 29, 2024

Upon registration, participants will receive a welcome email with a Zoom link and more information including handouts from Joe’s workshop assistant, who will also be available to answer any questions and provide technical assistance.

Joseph Millar's first collection of poems, Overtime, was a finalist for the 2001 Oregon Book Award. His second collection, Fortune, appeared in 2007, followed by a third, Blue Rust, in 2012. Kingdom was released in early 2017, and Dark Harvest, New & Selected Poems, was released in 2021. His latest collection, Shine, will be published in October of 2024. He has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in such magazines as DoubleTake, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, APR, and Ploughshares. Millar teaches in Pacific University's low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.