Eduardo C. Corral is the author of Guillotine and Slow Lightning, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University.
Workshop
Circles Within Circles: Reimagining Revision
In this workshop, we’ll explore ways to enrich the revision process. I’m never satisfied with the first gift: the language that arrives first. I’m always seeking more surprising imagery, music, linguistic patterns. During our conversations, we’ll put pressure on notions of attentiveness, active reading, intuition, play, imitation, echo chambers, and image making. Revision isn’t a “part” of the writing process. It’s holistic—it’s connected to imagination, to the way we sense the world, to the way we perceive and enact language. By the end of our time together, you’ll leave with new strategies to charge your language, your craft. We’ll also discuss the importance of wonder and bewilderment in a poet’s life. Each session will conclude with an in-class revision prompt. So, please bring three poems you want to revise to the workshop.
