Down to the Bone Gristle: Exercises in Revision and Editing

Writers will participate in various writing exercises that will encourage them to pare down the excess often accumulated in early drafts. Participants will discuss different strategies of avoiding redundancies and excess words along with reviewing drafts by notable poets.

Tara Betts is the author of the book Arc and Hue. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Binghamton University, a Cave Canem fellow, and taugh creative writing at Rutgers University. Her work has appeared most recently in Bellevue Literary… Show more Review, Court Green, RHINO, Saul Williams’ CHORUS: A Literary Mixtape, and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry.

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