A lot of good poems and essays get lost in revision and never find their way back. It's true what we take apart doesn't always get put back together, or at least put back together very well. Revision has stayed such a perennial topic of lectures, workshops, discussions, panels, etc. because of how close we feel to our own work, how visceral the editing process can get. It's not hard to become myopic - or at least frustratingly romantic - with some of our initial drafts. Equally vexing can be a desire to want to reenter, re-capture, re-imagine our work, but feel we lack the tools to do so and not get ... well, lost. Let's see what we can do about all this, shall we? In this craft-informed, generative workshop we'll explore various forms of radical revision - how it can liberate you, inspire you, and provide new perspectives on both your old work and your work to come. Potential list of poets whose work might come up include llya Kaminsky, Ada Limon, and Elizabeth Bishop.

Adam Grabowski is the author of the chapbook Go On Bewilderment (Attack Bear Press, 2020). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Ninth Letter, OVERSOUND, New Ohio Review, Plume, Sixth Finch, jubilat, Off the Coast, DMQ Review, Hobart, Rust+ Moth, Exit 7, Bullets into Bells (online), past-ten, Night Coffee, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, The Naugatuck River Review, Radius, and elsewhere. A multiple Pushcart nominee and the recipient of a 2021 Parent-Writer Fellowship from the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Adam holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in Western Massachusetts where he is the associate poetry editor of The Maine Review.