Sentence-Making is an intensive lecture class focused on the apparatus of the sentence as an ideal in itself for writers of prose and poetry. Adapted from the forthcoming book, Sentence-Making, from Feral Dove Books, this talk will distill how and why a devotion to the sentence can open up the possibilities of one’s writing, while sharpening one’s focus and turning the writing process into a more fulfilling, directly expressive act. We’ll look at sentences in terms of their art, rather than analyze them grammatically, to get a sense of the range of ways–from Stein, to Schutt, to Blanchot–writers can enact things at the micro level that can enhance not only our writing, but our reading. Nicholson Baker once talked of poetry as “slow-motion prose,” but this talk posits that we can treat all prose slowly, and savor sentences in a manner not dissimilar to things like slow cinema, slow TV, and other meditative forms.