POETRY COURSE | July 4 – 14, 2022
Instructed by JORDAN ABEL
Summer programs will be offered online due to COVID-19.
Applications for the
2022 Spring & Summer Adult Programs are now closed.
Application Fee: $25
Tuition: $595
This is a facilitated course for six poets who have published some work and are working towards manuscript completion. The course offers a small group context. Focus will be on writing time, individual critiques, and on group discussions dealing with technical, philosophical, or conceptual issues in contemporary poetry. Application is open to writers 19 years of age and older from Canada and abroad.
“My time with Sage Hill in the virtual program was super meaningful for me and my writing projects. The conversations in our poetry session with Jordan Abel were lively, thoughtful, generative and invited each of us to deepen and broaden our insights into how we think about our work, writing and the work of writing in the world.”
– Sophie Edwards, 2021 Poetry Course Alum
“Sage Hill is an incredibly supportive and engaging learning environment, led by exceptional Canadian writers and teachers. I highly recommend it to other writers. Jordan Abel is an extremely knowledgeable and generous educator who is committed to his students and their success. To have had the opportunity to learn from him has truly been a gift.”
– Anonymous 2021 Poetry Course Alum
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with Jordan Abel
Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). Abel’s latest project NISHGA (McClelland & Stewart) is a deeply personal and autobiographical book that attempts to address the complications of contemporary Indigenous existence and the often invisible intergenerational impact of residential schools. Abel’s work has recently been anthologized in The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (Hayward), The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry (Anstruther), Best Canadian Poetry (Tightrope), Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene (Wesleyan), and The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation (ARP). Abel’s work has been published in numerous journals and magazines—including Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, and Poetry Is Dead—and his visual poetry has been included in exhibitions at the Polygon Gallery, UNITT/PITT Gallery, and the Oslo Pilot Project Room in Oslo, Norway. Abel recently completed a PhD at Simon Fraser University, and is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing.
ONLINE SUMMER SCHEDULE ELEMENTS
- Classes usually meet for 1 to 2 hours each day.
- Sessions will likely take place in the late morning / early afternoon, to accommodate the various time zones of the writers taking each course.
- Some classes may instead meet every second day if more writing time is needed between sessions.
- Each writer will also have 1-on-1 sessions scheduled with their instructor throughout the program.
- Faculty and participant readings, as well as other social activities, will take place at 5 pm CST.
- Other optional activities will be scheduled around class times.
- With online retreats, we understand that writers may continue to have responsibilities at home. We’ve found that the more time writers put into the program, including time set aside for personal writing and working with feedback received on their writing, the more they get out of the experience!
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Q & A with Jordan Abel
1) What time of day do you write and why?
JA: I try to write whenever I’m inspired! Which is sometimes just 15 minutes per year.
2) What’s the best book you’ve recently read?
JA: The best book I’ve read recently was Molly Cross-Blanchard’s “Exhibitionist”. It’s was just so funny and charming and insightful that I couldn’t put it down.
Sage Hill’s Summer Writing Courses are made possible
by generous donors, funders, and community partners.
Many thanks to the SK Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, SaskCulture, SaskLotteries, the Saskatchewan Book Awards, and the League of Canadian Poets.