Instructor: Gloria Monaghan
Tuesdays
February 10 - March 17
3pm - 5pm (EST)
Online via Zoom
6 sessions

Why do we wait for inspiration? Or the perfect line? In this 5-week online late winter workshop we will work on new poems using in class prompts and exercises. Each week we workshop poems and provide feedback. Students will generate new poems and revisit old ones. This workshop focuses on the small terror of the seemingly insignificant line and helps us walk towards the heart of the poem to uncover the center which is sometimes as quiet as a church mouse. 

Gloria Monaghan is a Professor at Wentworth University. She has published seven collections of poetry: Diary of Saint Marion, Lily Poetry Review, (2025), Cormorant on the Strand, Lily Poetry Review (2023), Hydrangea, Kelsay Press,(2020), Torero, Nixes Mate, (2020) False Spring, Adelaide Books, (2019), The Garden, Flutter Press (2015), and Flawed, Finishing Line Press (2011). Her poems have appeared in Mom Egg Review, Quartet and River Heron among others. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, as well as the Massachusetts Book Award, the Griffin Prize, and nominated for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award from the New England Poetry Club. She is also a film maker.