2025 Schedule

Writing Poems on Love
January 7 – 28, 12-1:20pm CST

Writing Workshop for Beginning Poets
March 4 – April 1, 12-1:20pm CST

Writing Workshop for Intermediate Poets
May 6 – June 3, 12-1:20pm CST

Revising Your Poems
October 7 – November 4, 12-1:20pm CST

REGISTRATION & PAYMENT

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OTHER DETAILS

TESTIMONIALS
Dave’s workshop was full of great material and interesting prompts. He’s knowledgeable, with a friendly critical eye, and pushes for growth in form, meaning, and resonance. I was glad I made the decision to jump in, even at a busy time.
—Kelli Sallman

INSTRUCTER BIO
Dave Malone is a former college and high school English instructor. He is the author of five traditionally published poetry volumes, and his poems have appeared in more than 100 literary journals. His work has been featured on NPR and in such journals as Midwest Review, San Pedro Review, and Cape Rock.

Poetry Workshops Online

Writing Poems on Love 
January 7 – 28, 12-1:20pm CST

This workshop is designed for both beginning and intermediate poets interested in writing complex and detailed poems about love and friendship, including romantic love of course, but also friendship and familial as well as love for nature, pets, science, math, and other loves.

There is no textbook for this course; instead, students will receive a professor’s packet with instructions on ideas and details, forms, avoiding clichés, and a healthy set of sample poems. Students will write and revise a minimum of 6 poems in this course, with the possibility of sharing a well-crafted poem with a loved one or pet! Each week, students receive individual feedback on their poems from the instructor.

Zoom. 80 minutes. 3 weeks. 4 sessions.
January 7- 28, 2025, at 12-1:20 pm CST.
$275 fee. $250 for literary patrons.
For more details, see this informational flyer.

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Writing Workshop for Beginning Poets
March 4 – April 1, 12-1:20pm CST

This workshop is designed for closet poets, for dabbling poets, for journaling poets, and for those who would like to find out what poetry is all about. Using Ted Kooser’s slim textbook, The Poetry Home Repair Manual, and a curated selection of 12 example poems, we study the makeup of poems, including meter, rhythm, sound, feeling, memory, and metaphor. Students write and revise 7 new poems composed during the course. Each week, students receive individual feedback on their poems from the instructor.

Zoom. 80 minutes. 4 weeks. 5 sessions.
$350 fee. $300 for literary patrons.
For more details, see this informational flyer.

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Writing Workshop for Intermediate Poets
May 6 – June 3, 12-1:20pm CST

Prerequisite: Students are required to purchase (or get on library loan) Ted Kooser’s The Poetry Home Repair Manual and read it before the first class.

This workshop is designed for poets who write poems with some regularity, who took poetry courses in college, and who may or may not have published their work in a juried literary magazine or journal. In this course, we study ideas and details, content and forms, poetic structure, memory, metaphor, revision, and the submission process. Students write and revise 8 new poems composed during the course. Each week, students receive individual feedback on their poems from the instructor.

Zoom. 80 minutes. 4 weeks. 5 sessions.
May 6 – June 3, 2025, 12-1:20 pm CST.
$350 fee. $300 for literary patrons.
For more details, see this informational flyer.

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Revising Your Poems
October 7 – November 4, 12-1:20pm CST

This workshop is designed for intermediate poets who write poems with some regularity, who took poetry courses in college, and who may have been published in literary journals or magazines. Students will be required to bring to class a strong set of 10-20 poems that they’d like to revise with the goal of publication. There is no required text for this course, but students will receive a professor’s packet with various tips, exercises, and sample poems concerning revision.

Zoom. 80 minutes. 4 weeks. 5 sessions.
October 7 – November 4, 2025, 12-1:20 pm CST.
$350 fee. $300 for literary patrons.
For more details, see this informational flyer.