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Online Poetry Masterclasses with Jodie Hollander

HomePlace is delighted to host two Zoom masterclasses with
American poet Jodie Hollander.

Jodie Hollander is a poet, originally from Milwaukee,
Wisconsin and her poems have appeared in journals such as The Poetry Review, The Yale
Review
, The Harvard Review, Verse
Daily
The Best Australian Poems
of 2011
, and The Best Australian
Poems of 2015
.

She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in South
Africa, a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant in Italy, and a Hawthornden
Fellowship in Scotland. Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, was published with Liverpool University Press
(Pavilion Poetry) in 2017. Her second collection, Nocturne, was published with Liverpool University Press in the
spring of 2023.

Each masterclass will be 180 minutes long. The first will
work to the theme of ‘Poetry, Memory, and Childhood’, and the other will
explore Nature Poetry. Both classes will have a focus on building sound in
poetry, and making ear-pleasing poems as well as generating drafts of new work
and are open to beginners and more experienced poets.

Thursday 28 September
and Thursday 5 October at 7pm

Zoom link will be
sent in advance of masterclass date

Cost for both
workshops: £40