The Art of Assembling the Poetry Manuscript: Listening to the Poetic Landscape with Jules Nyquist and John Roche - Jan 18, 2025 waitlist email jules@poetryplayhouse.com
Saturday, January 18, 2025
10 am - 3 pm
In-person at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse, Placitas, NM
If you would like to be on a waitlist if someone cancels, please email jules@poetryplayhouse.com
Organizing, sculpting, curating, composing, designing, arranging, mapping…any of these words could describe the process of organizing a poetry manuscript. There is an art to assembling a poetry book from a manuscript.
How do you know what to include and what to leave out?
How do you determine an effective order of poems to reflect what your poetry manuscript says?
What about the title page and the book title?
Ordering poems is a way of mapping the landscape, walking the labyrinth and listening to the landscape of the poems. In writing the book, the poet sets the relationship between the poems, the book, and the reader.
Join Jules and John as we review a few poetry books with a good ‘thru-line,’ or order, and experiment with what our poems are trying to say when we order our poetry manuscript. There will be class breaks to walk the labyrinth landscape on the beautiful acreage of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse.
We will review a narrative arch, or thru-line, thematic sections, intuitive, logical, and best practices for placing strong and weak poems, what to cut and what to keep, and the relationship of manuscript poems in order to attract your publisher and readers’ attention.
Bring a poetry manuscript or collection in progress (minimum 12-15 poems) that is printed out with one poem per page, single-sided.
Class will have a lunch break (bring a lunch or order from Placitas Pizza, or shop the Merc Grocery, both nearby). Snacks and beverages are provided during short breaks throughout the class.
Jules’ Poetry Playhouse is at 11 Homestead Lane, Placitas, NM. Directions sent upon registration. No refunds; however, you may apply the fee to another class or merchandise if you need to cancel.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
10 am - 3 pm
In-person at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse, Placitas, NM
If you would like to be on a waitlist if someone cancels, please email jules@poetryplayhouse.com
Organizing, sculpting, curating, composing, designing, arranging, mapping…any of these words could describe the process of organizing a poetry manuscript. There is an art to assembling a poetry book from a manuscript.
How do you know what to include and what to leave out?
How do you determine an effective order of poems to reflect what your poetry manuscript says?
What about the title page and the book title?
Ordering poems is a way of mapping the landscape, walking the labyrinth and listening to the landscape of the poems. In writing the book, the poet sets the relationship between the poems, the book, and the reader.
Join Jules and John as we review a few poetry books with a good ‘thru-line,’ or order, and experiment with what our poems are trying to say when we order our poetry manuscript. There will be class breaks to walk the labyrinth landscape on the beautiful acreage of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse.
We will review a narrative arch, or thru-line, thematic sections, intuitive, logical, and best practices for placing strong and weak poems, what to cut and what to keep, and the relationship of manuscript poems in order to attract your publisher and readers’ attention.
Bring a poetry manuscript or collection in progress (minimum 12-15 poems) that is printed out with one poem per page, single-sided.
Class will have a lunch break (bring a lunch or order from Placitas Pizza, or shop the Merc Grocery, both nearby). Snacks and beverages are provided during short breaks throughout the class.
Jules’ Poetry Playhouse is at 11 Homestead Lane, Placitas, NM. Directions sent upon registration. No refunds; however, you may apply the fee to another class or merchandise if you need to cancel.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
10 am - 3 pm
In-person at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse, Placitas, NM
If you would like to be on a waitlist if someone cancels, please email jules@poetryplayhouse.com
Organizing, sculpting, curating, composing, designing, arranging, mapping…any of these words could describe the process of organizing a poetry manuscript. There is an art to assembling a poetry book from a manuscript.
How do you know what to include and what to leave out?
How do you determine an effective order of poems to reflect what your poetry manuscript says?
What about the title page and the book title?
Ordering poems is a way of mapping the landscape, walking the labyrinth and listening to the landscape of the poems. In writing the book, the poet sets the relationship between the poems, the book, and the reader.
Join Jules and John as we review a few poetry books with a good ‘thru-line,’ or order, and experiment with what our poems are trying to say when we order our poetry manuscript. There will be class breaks to walk the labyrinth landscape on the beautiful acreage of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse.
We will review a narrative arch, or thru-line, thematic sections, intuitive, logical, and best practices for placing strong and weak poems, what to cut and what to keep, and the relationship of manuscript poems in order to attract your publisher and readers’ attention.
Bring a poetry manuscript or collection in progress (minimum 12-15 poems) that is printed out with one poem per page, single-sided.
Class will have a lunch break (bring a lunch or order from Placitas Pizza, or shop the Merc Grocery, both nearby). Snacks and beverages are provided during short breaks throughout the class.
Jules’ Poetry Playhouse is at 11 Homestead Lane, Placitas, NM. Directions sent upon registration. No refunds; however, you may apply the fee to another class or merchandise if you need to cancel.
Jules Nyquist is the founder of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse in Placitas, NM. Her recent award-winning books are Atomic Paradise, Homesick, then, and The Sestina Playbook (Poetry Playhouse Publications). She took her MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College and her Ph.D. in Post-Secondary Adult Education from Capella University. Her dissertation focused on using poetic inquiry to manage stress for adult poetry instructors. Her poems have appeared in Taos Journal of Poetry, Salamander, 5AM, Malpais Review, Adobe Walls, A View from the Loft, St. Paul Almanac, Long Islander News, Gray Sparrow, House Organ, Duke City Fix, Café Review,Open-Hearted Horizon: An Albuquerque Poetry Anthology, IKON Magazine, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, and elsewhere. She is co-editor of the Poets Speak Anthology series co-published by Poetry Playhouse Publications and Beatlick Press. Two of the volumes have been finalists in the NM/AZ 2017 Book Awards: Trumped (vol. 1) and Hers (vol. 2). She taught poetry for the NM State Poetry Society and UNM Writer’s Conference and continues teaching at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse.
John Roche is the founding editor of the Poets Speak Anthology series, co-published by Beatlick Press and Poetry Playhouse Publications. Two volumes have been finalists in the NM/AZ 2017 Book Awards: Trumped (vol. 1) and Hers (vol. 2). He is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Tubbables (Poetry Playhouse Publications), Road Ghosts (Theenk Books), The Joe Poems and Joe Rides Again (FootHIlls Publishing), as well as the editor of Mo’ Joe: The Anthology (Beatlick Press) which was a NM/AZ Book Award and Pushcart Prize finalist. John earned his Ph.D. in English at SUNY/Buffalo and an MA in Anglo-Irish Studies at University College Dublin. John taught Literature and Creative Writing for four decades at various colleges, retiring from Rochester Institute of Technology. His poems have appeared in Malpais Review, Adobe Walls, House Organ, Napalm Health Spa, Gray Sparrow, Interim, Big Bridge, Redactions, Rootdrinker, and many other journals.