Science Fiction for Poets 4-Week Generative Intensive with Amie Whittemore, Starts Monday, August 4th, 2025

Starts Monday, August 4th, 2025 Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us.  Instructor Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press), and the chapbook Hesitation Waltz (Midwest Writing Center). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her writing has appeared in Blackbird, Colorado Review, Terrain.org, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University. Learn more about Amie in our Meet the Teaching Artist series.  Are you a poet who loves science fiction but finds it challenging to transfer your poetic sensibilities to prose? In Science Fiction for Poets, we will read texts that blend poetic techniques, such as metaphor, lush language, and lyricism into science fiction. Through discuss