Webinars

“I truly love your manner with the students. I particularly admire the way you help them find ways to not settle for the easy response, but to look inside to connect to something meaningful.”

NOTE: Each session’s replay video will be emailed post-session, so you won’t miss anything if you can’t attend “live.” The replay videos are generally viewable for one year, during which time the webinar (its recordings and materials) is still available for purchase.

  • DIP A TOE: Critique for the New or Reluctant Poet

Designed for poets who perhaps haven’t wanted to commit, time-wise or finances-wise or heart-wise, to a multi-week critique group.

Two separate 2-hour sessions limited to 6 poets each. We will devote 20 minutes per attendee to one 1-page poem each. Marj will thoroughly read and review the submitted poems ahead of time and heavily facilitate the critique discussion, while attendees will cold-read each other’s work during the “live” session.

Cost:  $29

When:  Three options:
Monday, March 18, 12:00–2:00 PM Eastern / 9:00–11:00 AM Pacific: FULL
Tuesday, March 19, 12:00–2:00 PM Eastern / 9:00–11:00 AM Pacific: FULL
Tuesday, March 19, 6:00–8:00 PM Eastern / 3:30–5:30 PM Pacific: FULL
Wednesday, March 20, 6:00–8:00 PM Eastern / 3:30–5:30 PM Pacific: 6 SEATS AVAILABLE

  • MORE THAN A ROCK: Extending Our Poetic Vision Through Edward Weston’s Photography

When:  Sunday, March 24
6:30–8:30 PM Eastern / 3:30–5:30 PM Pacific

Cost:  $39

“This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.” How might we apply Edward Weston’s philosophy to our poem-making? Weston composed his subject matter—whether landscape, still life, nude, or portrait—such that its physicalness became a wholly other body, so much more than an interpretation. In celebration of Weston’s 138th birthday, we will explore some of his black-and-white images, then write or revise in response to them through guided prompts designed to elicit language and structure that transfigure your poems’ subject matter.

  • MORE THAN A ROCK Open-Discussion Group

When:  Sunday, April 21
6:30–8:30 PM Eastern / 3:30–5:30 PM Pacific

Cost:  $29

This supplementary session is open to anyone who attended (or watched the replay video of) the 3/24 MORE THAN A ROCK instructional webinar. Attendees will cold-read the submitted poems (one 1-page poem per attendee, generated or revised from the webinar’s exercises/strategies; submission not required), though I will advance-read to heavily facilitate our group discussion, which will focus on how the poem and its attendant photograph refresh and expand our vision.

  • SEE & SAY: Visual Art as Spaces for Literary Expression

When:  10 Wednesdays, April 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, June 5, 12, 19, 26
12:00–1:00 PM Eastern / 9:00–10:00 AM Pacific 

Cost:  $129

John Berger said, “Seeing comes before words.” How may we see (experience) a painting, drawing, collage, such that we can locate our unrealized poems and build them beyond mere description of the visual art? After grounding the series in the varying degrees of response, we will view, per session, one artwork by a contemporary or traditional painter, then draft our own poetry or prose with some optional guided prompts. You will leave each session with a solid draft of poetry or prose.

This weekly hour is for you if YOU:

  • Learn and write better in community and with a structure.
  • Want to build or strengthen or jumpstart your writing practice.
  • Don’t have a ton of time.
  • Need a midweek jolt of creative inspiration.
  • Love to access your imagination and memory via the visual arts.
  • YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN: Mastering Repetition in Our Prose and Verse

When:  Monday, June 3
6:00–8:00 PM Eastern / 3:00–5:00 PM Pacific 

Cost:  $39

Anaphora. Epistrophe. Alliteration. Assonance. Consonance. Rhyme.

These are the six writerly tools for creating repetition—of words, phrases, vowels, and consonants—in our verse and prose. In recognition of National Repeat Day, we will study poems and lyrical prose that demonstrate the effects of repetition—reinforcement, emphasis, atmosphere, emotion, tension, and, of course, music—and practice these sound devices while drafting and revising our own pieces.

Plus, an optional supplementary session: 

  • YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN Open-Discussion Group

When:  Monday, June 17
6:00–8:00 PM Eastern / 3:00–5:00 PM Pacific

Cost:  $29

This supplementary session is open to anyone who attended (or watched the replay video of) the 6/3 YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN instructional webinar. Attendees will cold-read the submitted poems (one 1-page poem per attendee, generated from the webinar’s exercises; submission not required), though I will advance-read to heavily facilitate our group discussion, which will focus on how the prose or verse demonstrates the repetition strategies to enact, lyricize, or complexify its content.

Self-Paced Learning

  • HYBRID-ARTS SELF-PACED LEARNING

you missed any iterations of the hybrid-arts series that ran from January through June 2021 (“Cross My Heart and Hope to Fly: What Can Writers Learn from the Other Arts?” and “RE: RE: RE: Practice, Process, Product”), you can grab these video learnings now, by the month or the bundle, and explore, at your own pacing, these focused, meaty inquiries that will serve your writing, from conception to execution. 

Each one-hour session provides:

  • One or more brief samples of nonliterary artforms.
  • A group discussion about what those samples can teach us about artistic conceptualization, craft, and presentation.
  • Sample writings demonstrating those concepts.
  • One or more writing challenges applying those concepts.

CHOOSE your learning by the MONTH or BUNDLE:

COST:
By the month:  $22/month  ($5.50 per one hour of inquiry & instruction)
By the bundle:  If you prefer to pick-and-choose from among the month-by-month sessions outlined below, simply choose one or more bundle options:

  • any 1 session:  $10
  • any 2 sessions:  $18  ($9/session)
  • any 3 sessions:  $24  ($8/session)
  • any 4 sessions:  $30  ($7.50/session)

JANUARY

  1. Photography:  Form Serving Content / Rule of Thirds
  2. Music:  Embodiment / Charging Meaning
  3. Comedy:  Word Choice & Scene-Setting
  4. Painting:  Making the Familiar Unfamiliar

FEBRUARY

  1. Film:  Imagery & Metaphor / Pacing
  2. Cartoon-Drawing:  Composition & Sequencing
  3. Photography:  Point of View & Psychological Distance
  4. Songwriting:  Scaffolding /Associating

APRIL

  1. Photography:  Frame Within a Frame
  2. Poetry/Music/Comedy:  Listening
  3. Cartoon-Drawing/Painting/Comedy/Poetry: Knowing What to Put In & What to Leave Out
  4. Film:  Inessential vs. Essential Mystery

MAY

  1. Photography:  Symmetry & Asymmetry / Balance & Tension
  2. Sculpture:  Material & Shape
  3. Music / Film Score:  Tension Through Music
  4. Cartoon-Drawing/Comedy/Painting:  Subversion
    (via Comfort/Familiarity/Clichés)

JUNE

  1. Photography/Painting/Film:  Micro/Macro & Abstraction (Close & Faraway)
  2. Photography:  Negative Space
  3. Painting/Music/Dance:  Medium/Components vs. Subject/Experience/“(Un)Reality”
  4. Photography/Painting/Music:  Affirmation vs. Astonishment (Note: This session will be more meaningful if considered in relation to the #3 content.)

TO PURCHASE by the month or the bundle:

  1. Go to:  paypal.me/MarjHahne 
  2. Click “Send”. 
  3. Insert the total cost of your month(s) ($22 per month) OR your bundle(s).
  4. In the “Add a note” section, indicate which month(s) you want (e.g., January, June) OR which sessions you want by month and number (e.g., February #2, May #4, June #3).
  5. Once I receive PayPal’s e-notification, I will email you each session’s replay video and materials.
Click to access the login or register cheese