The poets Jane Kenyon and Hayden Carruth were among the most distinctive New England voices of late twentieth century. They came to the rural northcountry as adults, and discovered, in the land and in its people, a way to frame their own inner lives and to speak eloquently to ours.

This workshop will be taught ONLINE through the Zoom platform. In this two-day workshop we’ll look closely at work by both poets and use our conversations about their poems to jumpstart our own writing and revision.

The ONLINE workshop begins Saturday morning from 10 – 12 with introductions, and a conversation about the poems under study.   Dawn will provide us with a writing prompt.  Participants will respond and post their drafts on the class blog.

From 2 -4 pm on Saturday we will workshop our drafts. Saturday evening at 7 pm  will will have a group  reading all of our work along with poems by Dawn Potter.

From 10 -12 on Sunday morning, we will have another conversation about poems under study, a quick prompt and a share.

Dawn Potter directs the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching, held each summer at Robert Frost’s home in Franconia, New Hampshire. She is the author of eight books of prose and poetry, most recently the collection Chestnut Ridge. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including the Threepenny Review, the Sewanee Review, and the Beloit Poetry Journal. She lives in Portland, Maine.