Poetry workshop led by Amie Whittemore.

Delighting in Writing & Writing Delight

It can be hard to hold on to delight in our writing practice, especially when we feel pressure to write better, write more often, and write about Important Things (however we might define them). By reading and discussing poems that encounter delight from a variety of angles, we'll explore what delights us and how to better integrate delight into our writing. We'll also practice delight together through a short generative writing exercise and opportunity to share.

Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her poems and prose have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Nashville Review, Smartish Pace, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University.