The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Revision is crucial to developing your best work, but many poets struggle with this aspect of their craft. In this session, through a variety of techniques for revising poems at the micro and macro level, we will remind poets that revision can be fun. Participants will choose techniques at random and try them out on their own work. Ideally, poets should bring double-spaced versions of 4 or 5 of their most troublesome poems, though some techniques will also work with electronic versions. Participants will leave with complete instructions for all the techniques covered for their own future use.