Offered by KotaPress
Class2, via email
Available immediately
Price: $40.00

Expanding Poetry:
a one week online course

Facilitator: Kara L.C. Jones

This one on one workshop is offered to anyone looking to break out of the conventional boxes of the poetry world. Empowerment is expanding what your work can mean to the world today!
(course outline offered below)

Openings Now Available!

"I loved it!!...I found this to be very productive and thought provoking...Very positive...[and]Yes, I think that the $40 fee was reasonable for the amount of help that I received. Especially being able to email and ask individualized questions. That helped me out a lot."

-Sheryl Smith, Writer

Course Outline

Day 1: Introduction
Day 1: Rejection, revision, and statistics + exercises
Day 2: The Electronic Age + exercises
Day 2: Contests + exercises
Day 3: The Small Press and Self-Publication + exercises
Day 4: Readings & Performances + exercises
Day 5: Your Poetic Resume + exercises
Day 6: Interactive and Reflective + exercises
Day 6: Resource, not Competition + exercises
Day 7: When writer's block comes + exercises

Students will receive email once a day as outlined in the above details. Students are free to email questions to facilitator at any time throughout the week. Facilitator will answer questions within 24 to 48 hours. Upon completion of the class, a certificate will be sent you to mark your participation.

Facilitator Bio
Kara L.C. Jones is a poet and artist living in the Seattle area. She has been widely published in literary journals all over the world. Because she would not submit her grief-writings about the loss of her son to an outside publisher, she and her husband Hawk started KotaPress in 1999 as an outreach to other grieving parents, as a place where verse is healing therapy, as a safe space for grieving through your art. She has been facilitating workshops for 7 years including Creative Writing, Poetry Workshop, Self Publishing Made Easy, Expanding Poetry, and BodyWrites!, all of which have been offered in various areas around the U.S. and in settings such as the Washington State Poets Conferences and MISS Foundation Passages Conferences.