Beyond Inspiration: Searching for the origins of your poems
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Instructor: Liza Flum
By reading and completing in-class writing exercises, you will get in touch with your most generative material, gain a greater awareness of your writing process, and form a new relationship with the idea of inspiration.
Liza Flum is a poet and teacher living in the Finger Lakes region of New York. She holds an MFA in poetry from Cornell, and her poems appear in journals including Narrative , The Southeast Review , Lambda Literary , and The Collagist . She is a recipient of a Barbara Deming Individual Artist Grant, and her work has been supported by fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She is currently a PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah where she is a Vice Presidential Research Fellow. She works as a poetry editor for Omnidawn Publishing.
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