Sample Classes


These classes and workshops, primarily for adult, advanced students, were designed and taught by Martha Carlson-Bradley:

"One Art, Two Looks": Comparing the Craft of an Early and a Late Poem by Elizabeth Bishop

Ways a Poem Can Move

"I gained great skill/insight at a critical time in my career." ~Participant in Making the Match workshop


Making the Match: Writing Successful Grant and Fellowship Applications

The Flexible Sentence: Syntax in the Lyric Poem

The Flexible Sentence, Redux: Discussion of Syntax in Several Contemporary Poems

Concord, Discord: Creating a Concordance to Revise Your Work

Life after the MFA: Advice for Soon-to-Be Grads

What Haiku Can Do for You
(a class for high school poets)