The Direct Address: Increase Impact and Intimacy in Your Writing

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Every Ache Needs an Audience.

Join award-winning poet Kelly Grace Thomas for a two-hour generative workshop where you will utilize the precision and power of the direct address to maximize the impact and intimacy of a single audience. From people to places to entities, supercharge your writing with clear direction and intentionality. We will read and discuss poems by Matthew Olzmann, Diamond Forde, Tonya Ingram, Ocean Vuong, and more.

In this workshop, participants will:

• Identify the audience to tighten argument and form

• Receive concrete tools to sharpen questions and narrow focus

• Garner new language to increase precision and pathos

• Amplify emotion, momentum, and meaning

• Leave each workshop with three new drafts

Open to All Paid Subscribers. Registration link below paywall.