What the Poetry City Writing Residency Program provides:

At the heart of Poetry City Writing Residency Program is transformative teaching and learning. Poetry City continually seeks ways to serve its community through innovative and transformative programs designed to take you to your next level. These professional, intensives, workshops, courses and lectures provide an opportunity to transform our relationship with self, community and environment through the disciplines of writing.

Poetry City Writing Residency Program provides a respectful, nonjudgmental, collaborative environment for writers of all skill levels. The PCW is here to provide support for non-degree students by:

• Facilitating a space where you may actively engage in the many stages of writing (brainstorming, organizing, drafting, and revising)

• Collaborating with you to identify strengths and weaknesses

• Initiating activities to help you learn new skills

• Suggesting resources and materials

Poetry City Writing Residency Program's pedagogy honors a process of learning that goes beyond any single writing assignment.

• A writing fellow and student usually sit together for about 25 to 50 minutes, depending on each writer's needs. Writers may work with the same writing fellow each time or come and work with both of the writing fellows.

• Conferences usually begin with questions to determine the writer's wants or needs, based on current project requirements, past writing history, general composing habits, motivation, learning style, etc.

• Visiting Artists act as peer consultants and objective readers. The final decision concerning any writing assignment remains in the writer's hands.

• Visiting Artists can provide support with all assignments: course essays and reports, master's and senior thesis papers, personal narratives, résumés or CVs, cover letters or statements of interest for jobs and grad school, creative writing, articles for publication, grant proposals, scholarship essays . . . and more!

What students get:

Visiting Artists usually address global issues before local issues unless you ask otherwise.

• Global issues concern the whole paper: clear and focused ideas, organization, insights, analysis, voice, and style.

• Local issues concern grammar, mechanics, punctuation, documentation, etc.

• Usually Visiting Artists try to focus on one to two issues per session.

• The PCW's aim is to involve students in the creative process. Students should come prepared to collaborate and explore their writing.

• A visiting artist is limited in the amount of support he or she can offer. Students should bring in their work for practical discussions.

• Visiting Artists recommend that a student collaborate through assignments. Writing is a process of development, progression, practice and reflection.

 

Poetry City Writing Residency Program Press

BlazeVOX [books]

BlazeVOX online journal of voice