Workshop·Live, one to one·Two classes · two hours
The hook
Two live meetings, one to one, on Zoom. The times are arranged with you. The hook is a sentence that pulls toward what has not been read yet, and that the poem has to be able to keep. It is seen in someone else's text and rewritten in your own.
The hook is for continuing, not for calling attention.
Ground
If the line pulls, the poem has to be able to keep the promise. The hook is for continuing, not for calling attention.
Aim
- Find where the line lets go, and where it hooks.
- Rewrite a passage so one sentence pulls the next.
- Point to the hook out loud and say what it promises.
It trains
Make one sentence pull the next.
Contents
1The link
1.1Not a lure
It is not used to call attention. It is used to continue.
1.2It is a promise
If the line pulls, the poem has to be able to keep it.
1.3It jumps
It lets you go forward without staying in the order of the sentence.
2See it
2.1Where it lets go
The line that closes on itself and does not ask for the next.
2.2Where it hooks
The sentence that leaves something unresolved and holds it.
2.3Aloud
In someone else's poem the pull is heard better than in silence.
3Rewrite
3.1One passage
Not the whole poem: the place where the impulse stops.
3.2The next sentence
You rewrite it so it is necessary, not decorative.
3.3Say it
You name what the hook promises.
Questions
Is it a video?
No. It is live, one to one. The times are arranged by email.
What if a time does not suit me?
We set another. There is no group date.
Do I need the other workshops?
No. The hook stands on its own. Figure and ground helps, but it is not required.
What if I don't think of myself as a poet?
You don't have to. The work is a text of yours. A short draft is enough. If there is no poem, one sentence is enough.
It is live, one to one, on Zoom. The time is arranged by email.
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