Diana Goetsch

Biography

Diana Goetsch is the author of eight collections of poems, the acclaimed memoir This Body I Wore, and numerous feature articles and columns. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Iowa Review, The American Scholar, The LA Times, The Washington Post, and The Pushcart Prize anthology. She has taught in public schools, prisons, MFA programs and, for twenty-two years, at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. Her website is www.dianagoetsch.com

Events

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Free-Writing Intensive: A Workshop for All Genres

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Free-writing is, most often, how we honor an impulse to write, during which that impulse either catches fire or peters out. Many writers know this, but few approach free-writing as a practice , one with a wide range of methods and purposes. There are, in other words, as many ways to fill a blank...
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Overwhelming Subjects: A Workshop for All Genres

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Every writer has overwhelming subjects—the places, events, people, themes, or parts of ourselves that pursue us or elude us or keep us up at night. Maybe we’ve tried to write something umpteen times, and keep hitting a wall. Or maybe we never try, unsure of how to enter, or what we might find there...
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