的 IWC is happy to feature Lylanne Musselman in conversation about her 写作 life 和 her upcoming course with us, “为我们的生活谱写诗篇”
教练: Lylanne Musselman
新日期: 4 Saturdays: July 20; August 24; September 21; October 19
时间: 上午十时至下午十二时
地点: 变焦
成本: Nonmember: $250; Writer/Reader Members & IPC Members: $178; Senior, Teacher, Student, Military/Veteran, Librarian: $162
*的 cost of this class includes a $50 critiquing fee, to be remitted by IWC directly to the instructor, for work critiqued outside of class time.
关于本课程
This 诗歌 workshop will focus on generating first drafts of at least four 回忆录 poems, 如果不是更多的话. 的 sessions will include plenty of time for 写作, introductions of prompts 和 sample poems geared to each workshop’s theme. Students will have the opportunity to have their work critiqued in a classroom setting as well as outside of class. T在这里 will be activities to help you delve into your memories, some will be individualized 和 others will be group exercises to help mine your life experiences for memories that you want to explore more or that you may even have forgotten about…until now.
和Lylanne聊天
Lylanne Musselman is an award-winning poet, playwright, 和 visual artist. 她的作品已在 Pank, New Verse News, 飞行岛, Rose Quartz Magazine, Last Stanza Poetry Journal 和 的 Ekphrastic审查, 等. Recently, one of her poems was selected as the featured poem in 蒂普顿诗歌杂志， 第48期2021年春季. Musselman’s work has appeared in many anthologies, including 印第安纳波利斯选集 (皮带出版社，2021). She is the author of six chapbooks, including 狗仔队的鸟 (Red Mare 16, 2018) 和 is the co-author of Company of Women: New 和 Selected Poems (Chatter House Press, 2013), 和 is author of the full-length 诗歌 collection, 不幸的是，这不是爱 (Chatter House出版社，2018). Musselman is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, 和 her poems are included in the Inverse Poetry Archive, 印第安纳州诗人选集, housed at the 印第安纳州 State Library. Musselman is currently working on several chapbooks 和 a new manuscript.
What 写作 accomplishment are you most proud of?
I’ve been blessed with many 写作 achievements after dropping out of college many years ago because of English Composition! I thought I was an awful writer 和 was going to flunk the class, so I baled on college. So, don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t write. 在回到波尔州立大学之后, 在退学20年后, 和 actually majoring in English…I have my seventh 诗歌 chapbook coming out in May, I have a full-length 诗歌 book out in the world, 和 one published that I co-authored with two dear friends who are poets. I’ve got poems archived at the 印第安纳州 State Library through INverse…和 that’s just a few accomplishments. I’m most proud of my 写作 tenacity.
What is your personal motto, or something like a proverb that you live by (写作 related or not)?
保持写作! I tell myself that…as well as the many students I’ve taught or have worked with over the years. If you write…even a sentence a day…you’re not being idle.
What’s your favorite thing about the IWC?
I like so much about the IWC – but the class offerings are wonderful, 和 I never miss the Gathering of Writers – all that the IWC does is so inspirational.When it comes to 写作, what is your greatest challenge? 有时, I get in a rut w在这里 I feel like I’m saying the same things over 和 over – the same subjects, 老样子, 老样子…but I find if I give myself space to keep exploring those subjects, I make new discoveries 和 then I’m off 和 running again. So, that may be a long way of saying…my inner critic strikes again!
What’s your favorite thing about this class/what do you want your students to walk away from it with?
I love teaching the Making Poems of Our Lives class because I see the students get that “spark” when they remember something about their lives that they’d forgotten…和 how they get energized from 写作 about it. I want my students to walk away feeling like they can write those poems they felt they couldn’t…plus, I’ve had a few that have had their work published since taking this class…students who didn’t think they could even write 诗歌. So, that makes me happy…to hear of their successes.
Who is your favorite poet 和/or what is your favorite poem?
Frank O’Hara is one of my all-time favorites. I love his “I do this/I do that” poems. I feel he’s had an influence on my poems 和 how I construct them.