RADICAL REVISION WORKSHOP

RADICAL REVISION WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED!

RADICAL REVISION ONLINE WORKSHOP
Ruth Thompson
August 6, 13, 20, and 27
3-4:30 Eastern / 12-1:30 Pacific
$120

Are you interested in revising older poems? Or new ones? Do you want to unearth the deeper, stranger, more authentic poem that may lie beneath the poem you have written? (It may have a message for you.)

RADICAL REVISION is for you!

What is Radical Revision? Here’s poet Frank X Gaspar on the subject:

So the poem gets savaged, blown to pieces, nothing is safe, nothing is sacrosanct …. I have found poems that I did not know I could write, that I did not think I could ever have written, that were simply beyond me…. It is hard work because there is no light at the end of the tunnel. You have no“goal” you are working toward. There is no “toward.”
– Ellen Bass interview with Frank X Gaspar in The American Poetry Review Jan/Feb 2014

Note: Radical revision is not for every poem (or poet!) We will be looking at many tools and tips for revision, as well as the deep dive techniques of radical revision.

Contact Ruth at rt@saddleroadpress.com if you’re interested!

Ruth Thompson is the author of Quickwater Oracles, Whale Fall & Black Sage, Crazing, Woman With Crows, and Here Along Cazenovia Creek. Her new book, Journey Bread, will be published by Broadstone Books in 2024. Ruth’s poems have won many national awards and have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. Thompson has a BA from Stanford and a doctorate in English from Indiana Universtity. She is the editor and publisher of Saddle Road Press, a writing consultant, and a teacher of all genres. ruththompson.net.