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Dead Poem Society With Gary Lilley (Online)

Class canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience. This workshop will be live-streamed via Zoom. Class time is Pacific Time. Bring your dead poems back to life. We all have

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Dead Poem Society With Gary Lilley (Online)

Dead Poem Society With Gary Lilley (Online)

Class canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience. This workshop will be live-streamed via Zoom. Class time is Pacific Time. Bring your dead poems back to life. We all have

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Class canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience.


This workshop will be live-streamed via Zoom. Class time is Pacific Time.

Bring your dead poems back to life. We all have them—those ghost poems that keep nagging at you but you just can’t get them right. Join Gary Copeland Lilley for a workshop about revision and re-visioning the poem from the big picture to essential details. Become the poem whisperer that you need to be. Check out the crafting skills that will sharpen images and enhance the rhythm and musicality, and do it all without blowing up your original draft. This ain’t snake oil, this is putting a heartbeat into the poem using words you’ve already written. Yes, you can make your dead poems come alive.

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  • Registration will close on Thursday, April 14th at 4:00 pm.
  • This class will be taught via the Zoom video conferencing program. A Zoom link will be sent to the email address you registered with. The link will be in your event registration confirmation email and another email sent one day prior to the session. Please watch for this email. You may need to check your spam folder for emails from BARN.
  • BARN is committed to accessibility. Tuition Assistance is available - click here to fill out the simple application before registering for a class. For those who might need physical assistance, please learn about BARN's Companion Program here.

Author Bio: Gary Copeland Lilley is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent being The Bushman's Medicine Show, from Lost Horse Press (2017), and a chapbook, The Hog Killing, from Blue Horse Press (2018). He earned his MFA from the Warren Wilson College Program for Creative Writers. Lilley is a veteran of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarine force. He is originally from North Carolina and now lives, writes, performs, and teaches in the Pacific Northwest. He has received the Washington DC Commission on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. A founding member of The Black Rooster poetry collective, he is published in numerous anthologies and journals. He was a finalist for the 2018 and the 2020 Washington State Poet Laureate. He is a Cave Canem fellow. He can usually be found with a guitar strapped around him.



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