Lisandro Gallardón · Online
Learn exactly how a poem thinks.
Feel it, comprehend it, fix it.
You do not put into words what you already know you feel. Between the words, you discover what you did not know you were feeling.
More than twenty years. Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, with honors. Students who published a book, or won a prize.
Taught at
How to begin
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15 minutes, free, on Zoom. It is for choosing a workshop.
Book a free discovery call02
There is a problem in the poem and it is not clear which. A workshop takes one thing. You leave with that tool tried on a text of your own. The time is arranged with you.
See the workshops03
An open poetry group, with no end.
Or ten classes of mentorship, and it closes.
A poem that began at The Poet's Lab is in my book, La balada del cordero.
Javier Villamonte · individual mentorship
Soñar con Agua won first prize, and was published by Ediciones del Dock.
Estela Zanlungo · Fondo Nacional de las Artes Prize, 2014
I was able to improve the texts I already had, and to see things in the poem I had not seen.
Eduardo · individual mentorship
Open class
In the forest, with a trunk. What is seen, what is behind it, and what that says about the one who looks.
My voice, generated with AI in English.
Workshops
Two classes of two hours. One microtechnique, on a text of your own. On Zoom, one to one, when the time is arranged. USD 10. There is no filmed class in English.
The idea that holds
A poem without one organizing idea shows things and does not say where they go. You look for that sentence and test it on a text of your own.
The poetic image
If the line can be understood but not seen, the image is missing. You learn to give the facts so a reader can film the scene.
Suspense in a poem
A poem goes out when the first line tells everything. You learn to keep one part back, so the reading continues.
Voice in the act
Voice is not found before writing. It appears when the text does something, not when it is declared.
Step by step
From one thing seen to a poem, in four phases: stay with it, let it remain, write without judging, and only then put it in order.
Discourse markers
Some words tell the reader where to go next. You see them, move them, and test what changes if they go.
One tool is the first step you pay for. What follows is just below.
How to continue
Group mentorship closes. The poetry group does not. Private is the work, and the person who writes it.
A mechanism
Ten classes, and it closes. One focus of craft. It is not the poetry group.
USD 60
Ten classes
15 minutes with me, freeA community
The familiar form. You bring a poem, you hear the others, you write and you revise. It is not the mentorship. It is the workshop, and it does not close.
USD 30 a month
Month by month
15 minutes with me, freeA transformation
The most complete work. Your writing, and the person who writes it, week after week. It is not a longer workshop.
A sheet from the work.My story