Cooper Street Workshop: The Stubborn Muse – A Poetry Revision Workshop

About the Workshop

The most meaningful poems tackle important topics such as truth, beauty, love, loss death, etc. However, many poems fail to connect with readers because they rely too heavily on abstract language. After examining drafts and published poems, we’ll practice crafting our feelings and thoughts into concrete language so our readers will feel and think something akin to what we intend. Bring two or three poems with you, and let’s advance them to the next level.

COST: $60 General, $15 Camden residents & Rutgers-Camden students

About the Instructor

Peter E. Murphy is the author of twelve books and chapbooks of poetry and prose including the forthcoming A Tipsy Fairy Tale, A Coming of Age Memoir of Alcohol and Redemption about growing up in Wales and New York City. Recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, his writing has been published in Guernica, Harpur Palate, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Welsh Reader, The New York Quarterly, Rattle, The Sun and elsewhere. He is the founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University based in Atlantic City, where he leads writing workshops around the US and Europe.