POETRY wORKSHOPS
Youth POETRY writing Summer Camps
Session 3: POETRY
Class 1: Rising 9th–12th Graders (July 7-11) Class 2:Rising 6th–8th Graders (august 11-15)
All Classes. Time: 9 a.m.–12 p.m.
Price: $250/week/class Instructor: Jenn Morea
Location: Hemingway Birthplace Museum (339 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park)
Enrollment is 12 students max/8 minimum. If it is determined we do not have a sufficient minimum number of students, we reserve the right to cancel the particular workshop week and refund your payment.
class 1 (7/07–7/11) 9th-12th graders
class 2 (8/11–8/15) 6th-8th graders
Class 1 (7/07-7/11): Poetry for Rising 9th-12th graders
Students in this class will develop their craft and explore poetry as correspondence through reading and writing epistolary poems. With a focus on imagery, sound, and structure, they will experiment with writing in a range of poetic styles including prose poems and sonnets, as well as with creating poems from their own or others’ letters. They will receive granular and developmental feedback on their creative work, personalize a revision process, and build community with fellow students.
Class 2 (8/11–8/15): Poetry for Rising 6th-8th graders
Students in this poetry class will develop their poetry toolkits and write poems in the form of letters written to a range of subjects of their personal choosing. Students will explore writing in a variety of poetic forms including erasure poems, persona poems, and odes. Students will learn about poets who have used their own personal letter-writing practices as a way of generating and finding material for poems.
Instructor Bio
Jenn Morea teaches poetry and meditation to students of all ages. She has taught in Chicago and Evanston Public Schools and with the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art. She is the winner of the 2024 Sappho’s Prize in Poetry, author of The Hyacinth Letter (forthcoming spring 2025), and the lyricist of the Candy Claws album Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time.
photo credit: Deborah Seven