Crystal Lake Academy presents—The Author’s Journey: Poetry!

About Course

Poets, you can now book your spot in this year’s The Author’s Journey online workshop for poets.

Our team of editors/poets wants to facilitate your poetry writing journey for three months (from June 15th to September 7th), improving your craft and helping you get a poem ready for publication. That’s right, we’re going to compile all the final poems into an anthology which will be published by Crystal Lake Publishing before Christmas.

This course is recommended to poets at any stage of their writing journey. We’ll pair you into groups of ten, with two poetry teachers in charge of each group. Your first two teachers are Angela Yuriko Smith and Jamal Hodge. Naching T. Kassa will be the facilitator throughout the process/course. More teachers will be announced as spots fill.

Scroll down for more information on the course. If purchased, we’ll be in touch. Otherwise just email us at crystallakepub@gmail.com.

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS:

Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Shimanchu-American and an award-winning poet, author, and publisher with over 20 years of experience in newspaper journalism. She is the publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), a Bram Stoker Awards® Finalist, a two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner and HWA Mentor of the Year for 2020.

Colleen Anderson is a poet, writer, and President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. Her collection, I Dreamed a World, published by Lycan Valley Press, has been nominated for a 2023 Elgin Award. She enjoys writing dark poetry and her new book, The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams published by Yuriko Publishing is available now.

Jamal Hodge is a filmmaker, writer, producer, and poet. His collection, The Dark Between the Twilight published by Crystal Lake Publishing, will be available in 2024.

Maxwell I. Gold has been writing for half a decade. He’s written over 300 poems and short stories, mostly in the Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction genres. He’s been published by Independent Legions and Crystal Lake Publishing. His debut collection, Oblivion in Flux: A Collection of Cyber Prose, was released in 2021. His new collection Bleeding Rainbows and Broken Spectrums, a NSFW gay-erotic-horror collection is available now from Hex Publishers.

Course Content

Week 1: Introduction to Poetry Writing
Join instructors Colleen Anderson, Maxwell I. Gold, Jamal Hodge and Angela Yuriko Smith for the first week of The Author’s Journey: Poetry! in cooperation with Crystal Lake Academy from Crystal Lake Publishing.

Poetry is in the eye of the beholder…

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Week 2: Finding Inspiration

Week 3: Exploring Language and Imagery
The power of descriptive language Creating sensory experiences with words Imagery exercises and examples Generative work: Write a poem using vivid imagery and descriptive language.

Week 4: Crafting Poetic Forms
The role of form in poetry Exercises on different forms of poetry (e.g. haiku, villanelle) Generative work: Write a poem using a form discussed in class or from the included worksheet.

Week 5: Playing with Sound
The musicality of language Exercises on rhyme, alliteration, and assonance Generative work: Write a poem that uses sound as a prominent feature.

Crystal Lake Academy presents—The Author’s Journey: Poetry!

About Course

Course Content

Week 1: Introduction to Poetry Writing
Join instructors Colleen Anderson, Maxwell I. Gold, Jamal Hodge and Angela Yuriko Smith for the first week of The Author’s Journey: Poetry! in cooperation with Crystal Lake Academy from Crystal Lake Publishing.

Poetry is in the eye of the beholder…

Week 2: Finding Inspiration

Finding the muse where you are

Week 3: Exploring Language and Imagery
The power of descriptive language Creating sensory experiences with words Imagery exercises and examples Generative work: Write a poem using vivid imagery and descriptive language.

1,000 Words for a Picture

Week 4: Crafting Poetic Forms
The role of form in poetry Exercises on different forms of poetry (e.g. haiku, villanelle) Generative work: Write a poem using a form discussed in class or from the included worksheet.

Create Beautiful Monsters

Week 5: Playing with Sound
The musicality of language Exercises on rhyme, alliteration, and assonance Generative work: Write a poem that uses sound as a prominent feature.

Draft Lesson

About Course

Course Content

Week 1: Introduction to Poetry Writing Join instructors Colleen Anderson, Maxwell I. Gold, Jamal Hodge and Angela Yuriko Smith for the first week of The Author’s Journey: Poetry! in cooperation with Crystal Lake Academy from Crystal Lake Publishing.

Poetry is in the eye of the beholder…

Week 2: Finding Inspiration

Finding the muse where you are

Week 3: Exploring Language and Imagery The power of descriptive language Creating sensory experiences with words Imagery exercises and examples Generative work: Write a poem using vivid imagery and descriptive language.

1,000 Words for a Picture

Week 4: Crafting Poetic Forms The role of form in poetry Exercises on different forms of poetry (e.g. haiku, villanelle) Generative work: Write a poem using a form discussed in class or from the included worksheet.

Create Beautiful Monsters

Week 5: Playing with Sound The musicality of language Exercises on rhyme, alliteration, and assonance Generative work: Write a poem that uses sound as a prominent feature.

Draft Lesson

Week 1: Introduction to Poetry Writing
Join instructors Colleen Anderson, Maxwell I. Gold, Jamal Hodge and Angela Yuriko Smith for the first week of The Author’s Journey: Poetry! in cooperation with Crystal Lake Academy from Crystal Lake Publishing.

Week 3: Exploring Language and Imagery
The power of descriptive language Creating sensory experiences with words Imagery exercises and examples Generative work: Write a poem using vivid imagery and descriptive language.

Week 4: Crafting Poetic Forms
The role of form in poetry Exercises on different forms of poetry (e.g. haiku, villanelle) Generative work: Write a poem using a form discussed in class or from the included worksheet.

Week 5: Playing with Sound
The musicality of language Exercises on rhyme, alliteration, and assonance Generative work: Write a poem that uses sound as a prominent feature.