Introduction to Reading and Writing Poetry

Mame Willey

Fridays, 9:30 a.m. - Noon
September 30 - November 18, 2005
D.O.C. House

A course for aspiring poets at any level. The class will focus more than in the past on the "reading" aspect of poetry, using an anthology of modern and contemporary poetry. But we’ll still have time for your own poems, which you’ll share with our supportive group of fellow poets. Our anthology will be Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, ed. Neil Astley.

Class is limited to 15 members.

Mame Willey has taught creative writing courses at the Boston and Cambridge Centers for Adult Education, and composition courses at Bentley College, Wellesley College, and the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She received her M.F.A. in poetry from the Bennington College Writing Seminars. Her poems have appeared in Hunger Mountain, Cumberland Poetry Review, Blueline, and California Quarterly.