Maya C. Popa

Every time I re-read Mueller, I'm reminded I should teach a class on her work:

Oh, does this session promise to be a juicy one.

If you’re not a CWC Member, as usual, we have 5 tickets reserved for you:

luma.com/27l7cemw

Oh, does this session promise to be a juicy one.

If you’re not a CWC Member, as usual, we have 5 tickets reserved for you:

luma.com/27l7cemw

Sylvia Plath:

William Bronk:

Stealing from the Gods: Mythology for Everyday Poems with Carlie Hoffman · Luma How does myth function in contemporary poetry—as inheritance and as resource? In this generative craft discussion, we will explore classical myth through close…

How does myth function in contemporary poetry? In this generative craft class, we'll explore myth through close reading of contemporary poems & writing exercises. We'll experiment with voice, embodiment, & transformation, creating poems that draw on myth to expand their imaginative and formal range.

Robert Hayden masterpiece:

Stealing from the Gods: Mythology for Everyday Poems with Carlie Hoffman · Luma How does myth function in contemporary poetry—as inheritance and as resource? In this generative craft discussion, we will explore classical myth through close…

How does myth function in contemporary poetry? In this generative craft class, we'll explore myth through close reading of contemporary poems & writing exercises. We'll experiment with voice, embodiment, & transformation, creating poems that draw on myth to expand their imaginative and formal range.

Penelope Shuttle:

CWC Monthly Review A look back at December's classes and office hours

FYI: CWC has a (free) Substack newsletter FULL of craft tips and exercises pulled from our recent sessions. It's a wonderful resource run by our members. 💛

Grateful to @thetls.bsky.social for giving this poem a home:

A Three-Part Intensive with Alina Stefanescu · Luma Alina will be leading three sessions: January 11, 12-2 EST; February 28, 12-2 EST; March 28, 12-2 EST 1) Techniques to Fictionalize Photography “When I listen…

Beginning in January, this three-part course with @alinaetc.bsky.social

1)Techniques to Fictionalize Photography
2) Epigraphs in Fiction
3) Terrible and Beautiful Angelic Forms in Fiction

We have FIVE spots for non-CWC members to join us:

Sneak peek of January in Conscious Writers Collective ✨

www.consciouswriterscollective.com/poetry/

So glad, thank you so much for reading.

A Three-Part Intensive with Alina Stefanescu · Luma Alina will be leading three sessions: January 11, 12-2 EST; February 28, 12-2 EST; March 28, 12-2 EST 1) Techniques to Fictionalize Photography “When I listen…

Beginning in January, this three-part course with @alinaetc.bsky.social

1)Techniques to Fictionalize Photography
2) Epigraphs in Fiction
3) Terrible and Beautiful Angelic Forms in Fiction

We have FIVE spots for non-CWC members to join us:

Really moved to see this as it's one of my favorite poems I've written. Thank you, @matthewterrill.bsky.social.

Thank youuu!

Sneak peek of January in Conscious Writers Collective ✨

www.consciouswriterscollective.com/poetry/

💛

Ellen Bass:

Dead Butterfly BY ELLEN BASS For months my daughter carried a dead monarch in a quart mason jar. To and from school in her backpack, to her only friend's house. At the dinner table it sat like a guest alongside the pot roast. She took it to bed, propped by her pillow. Was it the year her brother was born? Was this her own too-fragile baby that had lived—so briefly—in its glassed world? Or the year she refused to go to her father's house? Was this the holding-her-breath girl she became there? This plump child in her rolled-down socks I sometimes wanted to haul back inside me and carry safe again. What was her fierce commitment? I never understood. We just lived with the dead winged thing as part of her, as part of us, weightless in its heavy jar.

thankful to @mayacpopa.bsky.social for including this wonderful Ellen Bass poem in her newsletter today

Mary Ruefle:

Writing Desire  - Five Things I've Learned Join me in this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things I’ve Learned about the ways that poets can bring desire to the page with heat, precision, mystery, and verve. Hi, everyone. I’m Maya ...

On this national day of shopping (🙄) here are two craft classes I’m teaching in December:

🎯 ON DESIRE for @Five Things I've Learned: myfivethings.com/class/maya-c...

🎯 ON MORTALITY & POETRY luma.com/1kaxbfbg

Robert Bly:

Poets, We Need to Talk About Self-Promotion Why asking for support feels harder than writing the book

Poets aren’t bad at self-promotion because we’re inherently humble, but because the habits that sustain poetry have very little to do with the habits required to promote it. Promotion can feel like an assault on the inner world by the outer one.

Thank you!