Deep Revisioning – Multi-Disciplinary Workshop with Leah Souffrant (via Zoom)
“Revision has always been my favorite part of writing. […] for me, the problem solving is what I love most: the challenge posed by the not-right words in the not-right order. – Maggie Smith
Our workshop will emphasize revision as a process and generative mode of discovery, play, and insight. Together, we will practice re-envisioning our drafts in terms of language, idea, structure, style, and sense. We’ll explore minor and major possibilities for developing a draft, helping each other as we practice giving and receiving feedback and implementing changes. This mult-disciplinary workshop invites writers of poetry and prose to bring along whatever they want to work on — from your best-written imperfect concepts and your worst-drafted great ideas — and be prepared to work both collaboratively and independently in this lively workshop.
Participants will be asked to share 2 pages of poetry or prose (double spaced) with the instructor in advance of the workshop.
NB: This class will be taught on Zoom and will be capped at 15 students. Registrants will receive the Zoom link to the email address they use to register. It will arrive immediately after registration so please check your spam folder if you do not receive it. It will also be sent the day before class as a reminder. Please review the course policies page before registering for any classes. Please email [email protected] with any questions.
Leah Souffrant is a writer and artist committed to interdisciplinary practice. She is the author of Entanglements: Threads woven from history, memory, and the body (Unbound Edition Press 2023) and Plain Burned Things: A Poetics of the Unsayable(PULG Liège 2017). Souffrant’s writing ranges from essays, review, and poetry to studies in visual art, translation, feminist theory, and performance. She is a founding member of the LeAB Iteration Lab for theater art and performance. She has been awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and her scholarship was recognized by the Center for the Study of Women & Society. She teaches writing at New York University. More about her work can be found at leahsouffrant.com.
