I teach creative writing.
I offer personalized writing lessons and coaching.
All genres welcome.
I work with tweens, teens, and adults.
I also offer occasional poetry writing sessions and workshops.
Meet online or in person. My office is in San Francisco’s Mission District.
6-week summer class now enrolling!
I have nearly two decades of experience teaching creative writing.
I have taught for the University of Iowa, Castilleja School, and Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies (SPCS).
As an instructor for Sanford SPCS, I taught creative writing courses in South Korea, Chile, Singapore, India, Thailand, and Kazakhstan.
I spent eight consecutive summers working for Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. I went on to design their first online poetry courses.
As a teacher, writing coach, and developmental editor, I’ve worked with writers from all walks of life and of all ability levels.
Classes and private lessons
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6 Weeks
June 17-July 22
3:00-5:00 p.m. on Wednesdays
Class meetings on Zoom, with optional office hours online or in-person in San Francisco.
Tuition: $700
“Poetry…is real magic. What controls the poem is more than the poet. The poet gives up control to higher powers- form, for example - ways of listening to various energies.” - James Galvin
A six-week poetry workshop for high school writers that will delve into what we might refer to as poetry’s magic potential. In this course, we will study the basic techniques of English language poetry (things like image, poetic music, and form) with the aim of leaning into poetry’s unpredictable and potentially magical qualities. You will complete selected readings each week and we will discuss these readings together. You will write one poem a week. You will share your poems with the workshop at least once and ideally more than once. You will get written feedback from me, Margaret Reges. This intensive summer course will take your poetry to the next level and open your eyes to new imaginative possibilities. My hope is that it will also bring you to a better understanding of what it means for poetry to be real magic.
This is a class for students with any level of poetry writing experience, though some familiarity with poetry will probably be helpful. The only requirement is that you be in grades 9-12. There will be something here for everyone and no poet will be left behind. Join me, won’t you?
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One-on-one lessons in any genre. I tailor readings, assignments, and goals to your own strengths and needs. This is a fantastic option for students who are looking for personal guidance and a level of attention that simply isn’t possible in a group class.
Tuition: $350 per session.
“I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer…
The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, gigantic and rational derangement of all the senses. All forms of love, suffering, and madness. He searches himself. He exhausts all poisons in himself and keeps only their quintessences. Unspeakable torture where he needs all his faith, all his super‐human strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the one accursed – and the supreme Scholar! Because he reaches the unknown! Since he cultivated his soul, rich already, more than any man! He reaches the unknown, and when, bewildered, he ends by losing the intelligence of his visions, he has seen them…
So, I work to make myself into a seer.” - Arthur Rimbaud