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Everyone has (at least) one of those drafts: the one that haunts you—and just won’t come right. You know: the poem you go back to, sink days or weeks of effort into, spend god knows how long wrestling, and giving up on, and returning to, trying to finish. The darling you killed--that won't stay down? You're sure you can fix it / you keep giving up—but...you can’t throw the draft out. That ghostly almost-poem (old or new) that excites and resists and gets put back in the drawer or file—and keeps coming back out out. This workshop is for you—and that zombie work. Bring it! We’re going to learn some radical revision techniques which will open, loosen, and inspire. We’ll have rigorous and real fun with our problem children—in the interests of having a better relationship to our poetic practice, and ourselves. Because—I know you already know this—this workshop is less about the poem than the poet. Enjoy a chance to take risks in a safe space, where we all want each others’ success: while you may or may not finish (off) this poem, you’ll have given it a chance teach you what it needs to about your mind and heart, and you’ll be a better—and happier—writer for the effort.