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Building a Better Poem


Adult Education / Create and Make -
Adult Fall 2025

Learn to work with elements of poetic craft with the goal of bringing your poems to the next level. Constructive feedback, given in a safe and supportive environment, is the foundation of this workshop structure. Optional weekly assignments will allow you to write at a comfortable pace while exploring new territory. Whether you’re a novice or you’ve been writing on and off for years, you will go home with better poems, an increased sense of possibilities, and more tools in your writing toolbox. Limited to 8.

Jane Poirier Hart

Instructor

Jane Poirier Hart holds a BMus in Composition from Berklee College of Music and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poems and flash fiction have appeared in: Los Angeles Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Worcester Review, The Ocean State Review, Lily Poetry Review, SWWIM, MER Vox Folio, and Drunk Monkeys. Awards include a Residency at The Frost Place and a Poetry Fellowship at the Writers’ Room of Boston, where her essays on maintaining a writing practice were published. She has served as a reader for poetry contests and been a panelist at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival.

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  Jane Poirier Hart


High Rock School (back) : HR Room # 114
Wednesdays, Oct 8 - Nov 12
6:30 - 8:30 PM

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Price: $ 165 00