A Public Space Academy is having me back to teach The Revision Laboratory this spring.

Sundays 3PM - 5PM Eastern
March 19 - April 23
Zoom Seminar

Description:

The Revision Laboratory
For some of us, an unblank page is scarier than a blank one. Many writing workshops encourage us to improve a composition through revision, which only characterizes a draft as a mess of problems to be solved. But what if revision were a playful experiment, not a search for solutions? What if our motivation were curiosity, not fear of failure? In this workshop, perfectionism is banned. Results are secondary: what matters is process. Participants will approach a single text with multiple modes of revision to release the hidden story inside the story, sharpen the story’s friction and energy, discover metaphor, and make the language more singular and alive. Light reading and writing homework. Experiments will be shared aloud in class.

The Revision Laboratory will incorporate the ideas and texts of Robert Boswell, Mitchell S. Jackson, Matthew Salesses, Susan Bell, Jane Alison, Philip Metres, Rebecca Gummere, R.O. Kwon, George Saunders, and Brian Eno.