Mapping Territory: How to Organize Your Poetry Manuscript

You know how to craft a poem that makes a complete journey. Yet, when it’s time to organize a book-length manuscript, you may feel lost amidst your poems’ many themes, images, narratives, voices, and POVs. This session explores useful tools to map a collection’s terrain and transform a sheath of poems into a book that guides the reader thoughtfully through its territory.

What You'll Learn:

• Book Architecture & Sequencing Poems: It’s not just about what each poem says—it's about how the poems interact to form a more powerful whole. We'll unpack the subtle dynamics that create a unified, yet dynamic, manuscript.

• How to Work with the Many Poems You Have: Your poems may not all look and behave the same. How do you tell which ones belong in the manuscript and which ones to set aside? We'll discuss how to rethink your work and start making sense of it.

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