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Online Workshops for Middle and High School Students:
Creative Writing (Poetry) with Katia Kapovich
About Our Workshops
Enhance your middle and high school student’s creative writing skills with our online workshop on poetry featuring the renowned writer, Katia Kapovich. Join us today!
Course details:
When: Tuesdays, Thursdays 6:15-8:15 pm (online, zoom) for Middle school students,
Mondays, Wednesdays, 6:15-8:15 pm (online, zoom) for High school students,
Dates: Starts July 5, 2023, ends August 1, 2023
Price: $984 (for eight 2-hr sessions)
To apply please email info@metrowestschool.com
Middle School Creative Writing
Creative Writing (Poetry) with Katia Kapovich
Poetry practice fosters reading skills, including reading comprehension and reading fluency. Writing
poetry supports and enhances students’ language and literacy learning experiences in engaging ways.
Moreover, writing poetry enables middle-school students to express feelings, describe their experiences,
and create images of everyday objects by using literary language, precise word choices, and poetic
devices. With the help of their teacher, students learn how to choose topics to focus on, ranging from
ordinary experiences and people in their lives to rich flights of the imagination. The teacher will ask the
students to read their composed poems out loud while the others listen, paying attention to the poem’s
prosody, intonations, and details of the content. The teacher will help the students explore strategies for
developing ideas for their work. The semester will culminate in the final submission of poems by the
students.
Goals That Guide the Writing of Poetry:
1. Students examine everyday objects and experiences in detail from multiple perspectives and use
their “poet eyes” rather than their “science eyes” to observe.
2. Poets generate ideas for poems from feelings and everyday experiences and by observing the
world around them.
3. All writers are able to express themselves and their unique perspectives on the world through
poetry.
4. A poet uses poetry to create a vision, experience, or feeling in the reader’s mind.
To apply please email info@metrowestschool.com
Online Workshop for High School Students
Creative Writing (Poetry) with Katia Kapovich
Do you like stories, humor, clever turns of phrases, and thinking about your place in the universe? Do you appreciate the sparks of creativity that can enrich our daily experience and make life deeper and more
fun? Some of the most wonderful things that humanity has written are poems.
You too can discover the poet in you! This course will use poetry as a source of insights about all good writing. Poetry is creative, and creativity is poetic and is best appreciated through direct engagement with poetry-writing. This course is a writing workshop, where every week you will write your own original poems and share them with the group. The poems can be in any form, and we will explore various beautiful poetic forms together. We will be honing our skills and learning and practicing helpful approaches to creative writing. Don’t worry if this is the first poetry course of your life, or if you have never shown your poems to anyone. The classes are designed to help you put together a toolbox of poetic forms, devices, and ideas. These will stay with you for the rest of your life! Your poetic taste will improve, and you will become very comfortable with both reading and writing poems. Do not forget: the way to gain confidence is by working on your writing. We are all in this together. I look forward to working with each of you. There will be no required readings, although I will recommend readings that I find interesting or relevant to our work. I will also suggest themes that you may want to address in your creative writing.
I will not be telling you what to like or not to like in poetry, since those things are for you to decide. But I will help you develop your unique and beautiful poetic voice.
To apply please email info@metrowestschool.com
Please contact info@metrowestschool.com for inquiries
Katia Kapovich
Katia Kapovich is an internationally esteemed bilingual poet and author. She has ten Russian poetry collections and two volumes of English verse, Gogol in Rome (Salt, 2004, shortlisted for England’s 2005 Jerwood Alderburgh
Prize) and Cossacks and Bandits (Salt, 2008). Her English language poetry has appeared in the London Review of Books, Poetry, The New Republic, Harvard Review, The Independent, The Common, Jacket, Plume and numerous
other periodicals, as well as in several anthologies including Best American Poetry 2007 and Poetry 180 (Random House, ed. Billy Collins). She was the recipient of the 2001 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the U.S. Library of Congress and was poet-in-residence at Amherst College in 2007. She is the recipient of the 2013 Russkaya Premiya (Russian Prize) in the short fiction category. In 2019 she received the (Russian) Hemingway Prize for a short story collection. In 2021 her Selected Poems: The City of the Sky were published in Moscow (Ekso Publishing House, 496 pages, forewarded by Dmitry Bykov, afterword by Bakhyt Kenzheev and Lev Oborin). She lives in Boston where she has been teaching Poetry masterclasses for seventeen years in multiple institutes, including MIT, CCAE, and as a professor of poetry at Free European University.
Note: our short classes and workshops are not refundable
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