Description
“The Gift must keep moving.”
— Lewis Hyde, “The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property”
Everyone taking this class will get the nitty-gritty, low-down on the best, most necessary steps to organize, publish, and market a poetry manuscript, whether chapbook or full-length—with a special emphasis on new publishing models and opportunities.
Poetry manuscripts call for the same lively, passionate crafting as poems: diligent and tender shaping, balance, resonance, and assonance. Poet Judyth Hill will go over the steps to expertly select, revise, and order poems into an integrated, flowing, submittable manuscript.
Then she’ll cover how to find the perfect publishing path—there are so many new ways to bring a beautifully crafted, well-designed book into the world. We’ll take an in-depth look at the new publishing models, including the new hybrids and easy-peasy self-publishing. Hill will cover traditional publishing and query letter/submission secrets, building our platform, and marketing as play and joy.
Poetry is a gift, and it’s time to give it. This is the how-to class many of us having been awaiting.
About Judyth Hill
Judyth Hill—poet, maestra, and editor—authored the internationally acclaimed poem “Wage Peace.” Educated at Sarah Lawrence College, she studied with Robert Bly, Galway Kinnell, and Deep-Ecologist Dolores LaChapelle. Her nine published books of poetry include Dazzling Wobble and Writing Down the Moon. Her poems are widely anthologized. The recipient of grants from the Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, McCune Foundation, and New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, Hill served from 1994 to 2000 as Literary Projects Coordinator for the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. Hill is the chair of PEN International Women Writers Committee; president emerita of San Miguel PEN Centre; codirector of Poetry Mesa, a global poetry organization; editor-in-chief of the hybrid publishing company Wild Rising Press; and an Anusara Yoga special subjects instructor. Originator of the WildWriting poetry process, she conducts workshops worldwide and on Zoom; offers one-on-one manuscript editing and mentoring; and leads Muse on the Move literary adventures in Taos, New Mexico, Ireland, and Mexico. She was described by the St. Helena Examiner as “energy with skin” and by The Denver Post as a “tigress with a pen.”
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