YOU'VE WRITTEN A POEM. NOW WHAT DOES IT NEED?

YOU KNOW SOMETHING'S OFF. YOU JUST CAN'T SAY WHAT.

Maybe you just finished a draft and you're staring at it, not sure. Maybe you've got a poem from months ago that's just sitting there, half-trusted. Maybe you know something's off but you can't say what.

That's normal. You wrote it. You're too close to it to see it clearly, and there's no one standing over your shoulder telling you what to cut, what to keep, or why.

So set aside 87 minutes and let's revise one.

I'VE MADE EVERY MISTAKE THERE IS TO MAKE WITH REVISION.

I've been too scared to cut a single line. I've also revised poems so hard I killed the thing that was alive in them. Somewhere between those two, I built an actual framework, one I use on every poem I write.

I have a PhD in English, an MFA in Creative Writing, I'm a published poet, a creative writing instructor, and I've edited poetry professionally for more than 20 years.

REVISE YOUR NEXT POEM · $97

I START WITH A POEM ABOUT LYING IN BED IN THE HEAT. BY THE END, HALF OF IT IS GONE.

I read the poem out loud, the way I always do first. Wherever I stumble is where I stop and mark it.

It opened with me lying on the bed in the heat, reading an open book. A few lines later it built into these long, heavy stretches: "political economy," "that unimagined achievement distracting us from our purpose." I could hear where it dragged. So I cut it, the whole opening and most of that heavy middle. What was left is where the poem actually wanted to start.

Then I got down to single words. I had "a rough clay bottle." I tried "coarse" instead. Same idea, completely different sound. One word, and the whole line changed.

You'll hear me stumble on a line and mark it. You'll watch me cut half a poem I liked. You'll hear what changes when one word gets swapped for another. You'll have a way to listen to your own draft, hear where it drags, and decide what to change.

REVISE YOUR NEXT POEM · $97

WHAT CHANGES FOR YOU

• You'll learn what to look for when you're too close to a poem to see what it needs.
• You'll know whether a poem needs a big cut or a small one, and how to tell the difference.
• You'll hear where a line is dragging instead of just sensing something's off.
• You'll have a reason for making a cut—and a way to judge whether the poem is stronger afterward.
• You'll test a word choice by ear instead of by guessing.
• You'll be better able to tell whether a change is helping, or whether you're just moving words around.

WATCH ME REVISE. THEN REVISE YOUR OWN.

$97

REVISE YOUR NEXT POEM · $97

THIS IS ABOUT REVISION, NOT ABOUT STARTING OVER.

This workshop is for a poem you already have, not one you're about to write. I'm not promising your poem will be publication-ready by the end. I'm showing you how to see it clearly enough to know what it needs next.

A FEW THINGS BEFORE YOU JOIN.

COME BACK TO YOUR DRAFT KNOWING WHAT TO LOOK FOR.

Watch when you're ready. Bring the poem you're not sure about, and we'll find out together what it needs.

Watch the whole session and use the framework on your own poem. If it doesn't give you a clear next move on a single line, email me what you tried within 7 days of purchase for a full refund.

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REVISE YOUR NEXT POEM · $97