The Makery: Poems of Hurt and Healing: Reading + Practice
This course combines generative writing and discussion using a book in common. Raye Hendrix’s poetry collection What Good Is Heaven will be our model for writing and reading poems that hurt us and heal us. We’ll study the themes and poetics of Hendrix’s collection and use the poems as prompts for writing our own stories of hurt and healing. Participants will have opportunities to write many new drafts, engage in feedback, and to expand their sense of what’s possible on the page. Poets of all backgrounds and disciplines are welcome. Class sessions will meet synchronously via Zoom on Tuesdays, November 4, 11, and 18, 2025 from 6-8 p.m., and assignments, poems, readings, and critiques will be shared in an online classroom via Canvas.
The poet Raye Hendrix will join the class for Q&A and a reading during the last class period.
(Participants should secure their own copy of What Good Is Heaven.)
Dates & Time
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 6-8 p.m.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 6-8 p.m.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 6-8 p.m.
All Sessions meet virtually on Zoom
About the Instructor
Marianne Worthington is author of the prize-winning poetry collection,The Girl Singer, and a forthcoming second collection from Belle Point Press in 2026. She lives, writes, and teaches in southeastern Kentucky.
