Critique Workshop in Poetry with Kim Addonizio (IN PERSON at HVWC)

Don’t miss this rare chance to work in person with brilliant West Coast poet & professor, Kim Addonizio before her reading at HVWC at 4pm.

Bring copies of a poem you’re trying to wrestle into shape! We’ll discuss it with an eye elements of craft like imagery, metaphor, line, surprise—as well as to finding places it sings and comes alive, and especially to finding its beating center in order to help you shape  it. We’ll talk about structure, revision, vulnerability, and inspiration. Bring copies for everyone, along with an open mind and heart for each other’s work.

Kim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She also has two word/music CDS: Swearing, Smoking, Drinking, & Kissing (with Susan Browne) and My Black Angel, the companion to My Black Angel: Blues Poems and Portraits, a collaboration with woodcut artist Charles D. Jones. Her poetry has been translated into several languages including Spanish, Arabic, Italian, and Hungarian. Collections have been published in China, Spain, Mexico, Lebanon, and the UK. Addonizio’s awards include two fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim, two Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. Her latest books are a poetry collection, Mortal Trash (W.W. Norton), and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). Now We’re Getting Somewhere was published by W.W. Norton (March 2021). Exit Opera is forthcoming in September 2024.

EXIT OPERA will be out from Norton in September. Preorder it here at BOOKSHOP.ORG and support independent bookstores: https://bookshop.org/shop/kimaddonizio