Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Poems Inspired by The Wizard of Oz

Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Poems Inspired by the Wizard of Oz

Hybrid course - Asynchronous weekly content on Wet.Ink (where you'd post your poems for feedback and respond to others) plus optional weekly Google Meet hangout for light discussion, sharing and touch base with our class.

8 weeks. Sept 16 - Nov 10

$400, includes 1 hour 1:1 Google Meet with Sarah after the course is over to go over Sarah's comments on your choice of 4 poems (recorded so you can use for revision after our time together!) SOLD OUT

 OR

$325, no instructor feedback

*Both options ask that you make brief line level comments on at least 3 people's poems per week in addition to inviting you to post your work. 

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We're off to see what work awaits, guided by Dorothy and her companions! In this class, we'll be using a variety of Ozian perspectives to investigate themes of wonder, friendship, displacement, identity and desire, and especially of journey and transformation. In addition to the original book, each week you'll find links to videos, poems and a few articles, but the main work here will be to use Oz as a place for exploration in your own writing. Each week we’ll write new poems from a prompt linked to Baum's masterpiece, and many adaptations of these travels. You'll be invited to share your thoughts and the work they inspire with classmates, and for light instructor feedback if you choose. (10 seats with feedback available. General seats do not include instructor feedback.) By the end of class, you'll have several new drafts, a few new ways to write your way home, and a renewed sense that you had the power all along.