Editing poetry can be a tricky and emotional process. Attending to the cadence, imagery, impact, and structure of a poetic work often requires a specialized approach.

Whether you're helping a client or working on your own pieces, this 90-minute webinar will equip you with tools specifically tailored to editing poetry. Approaching the process from the perspectives of craft, intent, and emotionality, we will discuss techniques and complete exercises designed to fine-tune and strengthen poems. We will be paying special attention to the poet's relationship to their audience.

Writers of all levels are welcome, but this workshop is best suited to editors who are interested in adding poetry editing to their skillsets, as well as poets beginning to edit their work for publication. You'll come away from this webinar with a deeper understanding of how to apply editorial craft even to the most challenging and ambitious poetic works.

R.B. Lemberg (they/them) is an author of six books of speculative fiction and poetry, an editor and co-editor of four anthologies of poetry and experimental fiction, a professor, and a translator of poetry from Ukrainian and Russian. R.B.'s work has been shortlisted for the Le Guin Prize for Fiction, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte, World Fantasy, and other awards. You can find R.B. on Instagram at @rblemberg, and on Bluesky at @rblemberg.bsky.social.

This webinar originally aired on April 10, 2025.