Tag Archives: Craig Brandis

Reimagining Poetry Forms Workshop w Craig Brandis | Sep 18 – Oct 23 | Zoom

Forms can help quiet the mind’s intention and open up new realms of discovery. Let’s look beyond traditional forms to see how some modern masters are updating and reinventing poetry forms to suit their needs. We will then apply those lessons to our own poems. Share your work in an environment of acceptance and exploration. Discover how your poems start to take on new vigor and vitality. Reading list: poems from Jericho Brown, Dianne Seuss, Wendy Xu and others. Come join us!

Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:00pm Pacific Time, Sep 18 – Oct 23 (6 weeks) on Zoom

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Music of Poetry Workshop w/ Craig Brandis | May 1 – June 5 | Zoom

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Have you been wondering how to make your poems grab the reader right away and also linger in the mind after their finished reading? Musicality of poetry is the answer. Let’s gather to study how some modern masters make their poems sing, without relying on traditional metrical structures. Let’s focus on rhythm and pacing, the use of silence, flow, lyricism and emotional resonance. We will then apply those lessons to your own poems. Discover how your poems start to sing out. Share your work in an environment of acceptance and exploration. Reading list: poems from Ocean Vuong, Michael Zapruder, Ada Limón and others help light our way. Come join us! Give your poems fresh sound and meaning.

Craft of Poetry Workshop: Voice and Vision w Craig Brandis | Feb 27 – Apr 3 | Zoom (FULL – Waitlist Only)

Have you been wondering how to move your poetry practice to the next level? Would you like to share your work in an environment of acceptance and discovery? Leveling up means expanding your vocabulary of poetry moves. “For me, meaning arrives, almost unbidden, from an accumulation of details,” says Ted Kooser, and we’re going to study how some modern masters make their poems work by focusing on details: physical, emotional and temporal, and their use of literary devices and motifs. We will then apply those lessons to our own poems. Discover how your poetic voice and vision emerge, change and grow. Poems from Arthur Sze, Mary Ruefle, Li-Young Lee and others help light our way. Come join us! Open to all writers.

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Beginning Your Poetry Practice Workshop w Craig Brandis | Jan 16 – Feb 20 | Zoom

Have you recently begun to write poetry or now wish to? Learning to write poetry begins with looking at the world with a sense of wonder and curiosity. It begins with special affection for words and a desire to be in the company of other poets who feel the same. Maybe you just need a push — a practice? Each session in this workshop will begin with poetry games and in-class writing. Craft discussions, based on what we write and share, will help us follow the trail down to where things get true. Poems from Duo Duo, Kay Ryan and others help light our way. Share your work in an environment of acceptance and discovery.  Open to all writers. Come join us!

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My New Book – Crying of Small Motors

I’m pleased to tell you my new book of poetry, Crying of Small Motors, is now available from Finishing Line Press.  Here are some of the endorsements:  

“In Crying of Small Motors we hear a searingly honest voice that I come to poetry for…we trust the poet and follow him into increasingly strange, Tranströmer-like spaces: ‘Above the / small print / grasses, a horse’s / double field / of vision folds / the country / lengthwise.’ A mighty debut!” — John Wall Barger, author Smog Mother

“While reading each and every poem, I kept thinking to myself: Here is a poet, the real McCoy. Craig Brandis is a poet of work, for sure. He interrogates the industry, drudgery, grind, pains, and travails of what it’s like to swing a hammer for a living. But also, he is a poet of devotion and merriment and reverence for the same.” — David Biespiel, author A Place of Exodus

“It is intuitive to seek beauty in beautiful spaces, but these poems seek it in hard places, where the reward is more profound.” — Darren Morris, Poetry Editor Parhelion Literary Journal

To order, use the link below.  

https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/crying-of-small-motors-by-craig-brandis/

Tumblehome

The Cafe Review, a lovely print journal based in Maine has published one of my poems — Tumblehome.