This class is for students interested in learning about the genre from Charles Rafferty, a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Each week, participants will share a poem, and the instructor will lead a discussion of the manuscript, highlighting what is working well and suggesting ways to improve it. As time allows, there may also […]
Charles Rafferty
Charles Rafferty has published 13 collections of poetry, the most recent of which are The Smoke of Horses (BOA Editions, 2017) and Something an Atheist Might Bring Up at a Cocktail Party (Mayapple Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, O, Oprah Magazine, Cincinnati Review, Massachusetts Review, Plume, Prairie Schooner, and Ploughshares, and they have also been featured on Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, The Writer's Almanac With Garrison Keillor, and the Academy of American Poets' website (poets.org). His stories have appeared in The Southern Review and New World Writing. His story collection is Saturday Night at Magellan's (Fomite Press, 2013). He has won the 2016 NANO Fiction prize, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. Currently, he directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College.
Weekly Intensive: Introduction to Poetry, Prose Poems and Flash Fiction
All levels are welcome! We’ll explore ways to access our creative spark and to hone our craft. We’ll take some time at the start of each class to discuss a poem, prose poem or work of flash fiction that can serve as a model of excellence. The bulk of our class time, though, will be […]