The Free-Writing Intensive is back! NEA award-winning poet to teach writing class at CILK119 in Rockland on September 12th.

Part 2 of this series takes up Negative Capability—what Keats saw as the capacity to exist in “uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” Negative Capability is at the heart of literary creativity, and there is no better tool for training in it than free-writing. This class, which will present many specific practices, is effective for writers of all genres. You need not have attended Part 1 to participate.

Perfect for all levels and genres, this workshop focuses on the essential, though seldom taught practice of free-writing, employing unique and counterintiuitive techniques to help get us out of ruts and old patterns. It’s often an exhilarating experience, like a cracking open of reality, as writers learn, rather quickly, to let go of habits they once thought were embedded in their DNA. The Free-writing Intensive is also a powerful antidote to “writer’s block,” as participants train in practical ways to stay productive outside of writing workshops.

Douglas Goetsch, author of seven collections of poetry, has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The American Scholar, The Pushcart Prize anthology and Best American Poetry. His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Chautauqua Poetry Prize, the Paumanok Award, and the Donald Murray prize for essay writing. He is the founding editor of Jane Street Press. Visit him at www.douglasgoetsch.com

Tuition: $100

Questions? Call Doug at 212-924-6315 or email him at doug@janestreet.org.

Register at: http://www.cuppapulp.com/cilk119/event/free-writing-intensive-2/