June 5, 2024 at 6:45 pm-7:15 pm – Join us for dinner at the Writers House between Cooper Street Workshops on June 5! If it’s nice out, bring a picnic blanket or a camping chair, and we’ll eat outside. June 5, 6:45-7:15, in-person at the Writers House. Free for Camden residents and Rutgers-Camden students; $10 for general. Registration required: register here.
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Summer Wednesdays on Cooper Street: Revision Techniques for Poetry (Virtual)
June 5, 2024 at 7:30 pm-8:30 pm – INSTRUCTOR: Caroline Simpson ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP: According to Robert Graves, “There’s no such thing as great writing, only great rewriting.” We will read and discuss example drafts of published poems, examining how each subsequent draft brings the poem closer to a place where it pleases linguistically, intrigues intellectually, and moves emotively. You’ll learn a number […]
Summer Wednesdays on Cooper Street: Photographic Poetry (In Person)
July 10, 2024 at 5:30 pm-6:30 pm – INSTRUCTOR: Sophia Hall ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP: Click. Shutter. Snapshot. Bring your camera lens to poetry! In this workshop, we will use the techniques of photographers in order to effectively capture seemingly ordinary moments in transcendent poetry. By studying the photographic poems of Ruben Quesada, Stephen Dunn, and Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, we will […]
Summer Wednesdays on Cooper Street: Dinner at the Writers House
July 10, 2024 at 6:45 pm-7:15 pm – Join us for dinner at the Writers House between Cooper Street Workshops on July 10! If it’s nice out, bring a picnic blanket or a camping chair, and we’ll eat outside. July 10, 6:45-7:15, in-person at the Writers House. Free for Camden residents and Rutgers-Camden students; $10 for general. Registration required: register here.
Summer Wednesdays on Cooper Street: Improv for Writers (Virtual)
July 10, 2024 at 7:30 pm-8:30 pm – INSTRUCTOR: Monica Shah ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP: This lively workshop will explore improvisational comedy to enhance creativity and imagination with the ultimate goal of generating fresh ideas. A mix of interactive improv games will catalyze and rekindle writers’ innate storytelling instincts by tapping into imaginative flow as they release inner critics and overthinking. Participants will practice […]
Summer Wednesdays on Cooper Street: Crafting Character (In Person)
August 7, 2024 at 5:30 pm-6:30 pm – INSTRUCTOR: Amber Joseph ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP: I am interested in hauntings, and the ways that ghosts can exist in both literal (supernatural and spiritual) and metaphorical (systemic erasure) terms. The questions anchoring this prose workshop might be: What ghosts surround the characters that we create? What do we as writers know about our characters that […]