The Hinge's Poetry Workshop with Chris Vitiello

The Hinge offers a "Poetry Laboratory" with Chris Vitiello. This workshop will meet once a week, on Mondays, for eight weeks.
Here's a bit about the class:
Poetry Laboratory
In this combination writing workshop and studio, we'll critique ongoing work and start new work. In the critique, we'll listen through the words to hear the essential poem that those words sit in, and then scrutinize the words and shapes to see if the poem is manifested best in them. Let's go with Williams' definition of the poem as a "machine made of words." We will concentrate on understanding the purpose of the machine first and foremost, before marveling at or tinkering with its ornate, interlocking innards. Each class we'll start by quick-reading some work by an existing poet, then workshop the poems that students have brought in, and then end with a quick-write experiment. The spirit of the experiments will be to start down writing paths that you didn't know were there.
 
Here’s a bit about Chris:
Chris Vitiello lives in Durham and sustains himself minimally through freelance arts, performance, and hockey writing, as well as teaching. His third book of poetry— Obedience —is due out in February 2012 from Ahsahta Press. Previous books are Irresponsibility (Ahsahta, 2008) and Nouns Swarm A Verb (Xurban, 1999). He has an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University and was a founding editor of the magazine Proliferation in the mid-1990s. He also stages original non-narrative plays at the Space in Durham and assists the Poetry Fox in his spontaneous poetic work.