Poetry course

Description of the workshop

This workshop will provide us with the fundamental keys to understanding poetry and poetic writing. We will base ourselves on the reading and analysis of contemporary reference poets to, at the same time, discover our own voice, its rhythm, its structure, its way of doing and saying itself.

For this purpose, during the course, it will be proposed to carry out practices on the poem from the first day: how to deal with the blank page, how to find the appropriate mold for the expression of what is felt, how to let the text rest and then rewrite it and how to finally we can carry out that intense work of language that is the poem. The learning will be completed with the writing of your own texts so that during the process, and from an appropriate theoretical framework, you can find your own voice.

Functioning

The courses are taught in our virtual Campus and can be followed from anywhere and at any time. Each unit, the teacher comments on all the texts in a written report, in which, in addition to making a personalized comment to each student, he makes a global comment, focused on the theme of the unit and complemented by what was discussed in the group throughout the unit. unit.

They always begin on Wednesday, the day on which the presentation debates between the teacher and the students begin. That first day, a PDF is also delivered with the theoretical work material and a practical writing proposal. Students will have a space of fourteen days (until the following Tuesday) to send their exercises. The teacher will collect the exercises and share them with the group, guiding the debate and reading about them. On Thursdays of the following week, you will submit your comments in the form of a final report to the group.

In this course, writing proposals will alternate every week with reading proposals with their subsequent commentary and analysis. So, twice a month, during the day and at the time that suits the majority of the students, a virtual chat will be called (in a private chat room) to comment on the lessons or review some aspects that offer doubts. .

The story is written by you

Welcome to the largest school of Creative Writing in Spanish in the world, welcome to the Escuela de Escritores :

We all have a story to tell and we can all find the best way to do it. Because, yes, you can learn to write. Writing is a trade and, as in any trade, the first step is to know and master the techniques that will allow you to exercise it masterfully. Teaching this trade is the raison d'être of the Escuela de Escritores . Learning it is not only within reach of geniuses touched by the divine finger or blessed with the gene of writing: the thousands of people who have passed through our classroom and virtual classroom discover it every day for fifteen years.

When an occupation is exercised with mastery, it becomes art and when we talk about art we also talk about those intangibles that are talent or inspiration. Talent is not learned, but you have little or much, you can develop it in the right environment. Writers have always needed to surround themselves with other writers in search of guidance or advice (remember literary gatherings or the epistolary relationship among many of them). Escuela de Escritores is a meeting place for Spanish-speaking writers from around the world, a community where you can share the experience of writing with your classmates, guided by many of the best teachers of Creative Writing in Spanish.

Because to begin to write is only the beginning. There are many writers who, when asked why they write, what they get at so many hours before the blank page, respond with two words: more life. A writer lives many lives: his and all that he discovers within himself. Something breaks when we write: that layer of fear that separates us from the world, from true emotions. On the other side we are born fragile words, that a writer learns to care until they meet in phrases that, with patience and a lot of trade, end up being stories, novels, scripts, poems, art, life.

If your desire is to train you as a writer, get started in the secrets and techniques of this difficult and exciting job, we will not disappoint you. We can not promise success, or thousands of readers, or the discomforts of fame, that literary glory that some confuse with being a writer; but we can guarantee a solid, complete and well-structured training that will allow you to learn all the techniques and resources of the trade: a training on which you can build your voice and your speech, that life that beats in your interior and that only you you can count.