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POWER GRID: An Open-Critique Salon

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts when it comes to the collective intelligence of a group of poets! Some of us, however, don’t feel ready to participate in a standard critique group, even though we know how challenging it is to upgrade our work when the same mind that drafted our poems is the same mind revising them. POWER GRID is designed to serve those poets, as well as poets who are a smidge bored with the typical critique-group experience.

POWER GRID is for you if you:
• are game for an adventurous, different critique-group experience.
• learn more about poem-making from the discussion and critique of others’ poems.
• wish to cultivate objectivity about poem-making without compromising your authority.
• want to rapidly reinforce and practice the distinctions and strategies we covered in POEMADE.
• love participating in a community of poets taking the same risks you are!

Each session, heavily facilitated by Marj Hahne, will present 4–6 poems from attendees, on a rotating basis, who’ve submitted (to Marj only) a one-page poem for cold-read group-critique. Attendees are not required to submit their work over the course of the four sessions. This webinar is limited to folks who’ve completed POEMADE or participated in one of my previous Advanced Seminar-Critique groups, so that our discussions happen at an accelerated, deepened level of po-understanding.

NOTE: Each session’s replay video will be emailed post-session, so you won’t miss anything if you can’t attend “live.”