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92Y presents Young Writers Workshop: Poetry with Monica Sok
From the organizers: "Online Class for high school students, ages 15-18 Our poems have the power to reflect us. We may look into the mirror to see ourselves in plain sight. But what about windows that invite our own reflections inside another space? The self, looking into a room. The self, staring outside at a […]
92Y presents Young Writers Workshop: Poetry with Monica Sok
From the organizers: "Online Class for high school students, ages 15-18 Our poems have the power to reflect us. We may look into the mirror to see ourselves in plain sight. But what about windows that invite our own reflections inside another space? The self, looking into a room. The self, staring outside at a […]
Hugo House presents Writing the Duplex with Jericho Brown
From the organizers: In this 90-minute class, Jericho Brown will lead students through an exercise for writing a duplex poem — a form he invented that blends the ghazal, the sonnet, and the blues. Each student should bring 14 disparate lines of 9–11 syllables to class. Lines may be from sentences of the student’s own […]
Skagit River Poetry Foundation presents Surrealist Starter Kit: Writing New Poems Based on Surrealist Play with Kelli Russell Agodon
Skagit River Poetry Foundation presents Surrealist Starter Kit: Writing New Poems Based on Surrealist Play with Kelli Russell Agodon at 10 am - 3 PM PST From the organizers: In this 5-hour online Zoom class, we will swan-dive into the strange through techniques and games used by surrealist writers and artists. The poems we will […]
Hudson Valley Writers Center presents Craft Class with Tyree Daye via Zoom
Hudson Valley Writers Center presents Craft Class with Tyree Daye via Zoom at 10:30 am - 2:30 pm. From the organizers: "The poet Vievee Francis introduced the concept of entering “the cave of one’s self” during my grad school years at North Carolina State University,” Tyree explains. “Vievee encouraged me to explore my narrative, to […]
Ruth Stone House presents Poetry & Divination with Timothy Liu
Ruth Stone House presents Poetry & Divination with Timothy Liu at 1 pm EST. From the organizers: "This class includes two three-hour sessions, the first being a lecture and the second a workshop. This workshop will explore how occult practices—astrology, I-Ching, tarot—dovetail with our writing lives. We’ll first take a look at historical figures (Yeats, […]
Black Mountain Institute presents Breakout Writers Series with Leila Chatti
Black Mountain Institute presents Breakout Writers Series with Leila Chatti From the organizers: Join Leila Chatti as she teaches us to use poetic forms to look directly at faith, personal stories, and stigmatized conditions. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/breakout-writers-series-leila-chatti-tickets-166425803057
Comet of Stillness: Taught By Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder
Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder will be teaching a class called Comet of Stillness: A five-week short course on the Poetry of W.S. Merwin. The course will meet on Sundays from January 22 – February 19, 2023. Early Bird Tuition (before January 12, 2023): $270. Standard Tuition (After January 12, 2023): $300. Financial Aid is […]
Craft Class and Reading with Dana Levin
From the organizers: "Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Dana Levin. Craft Class will run from 11:00AM-1:00PM EST, followed by a reading from 1:05 PM-1:20 PM. Serious Play: This April Fool's Day workshop will focus on play—the heart of any strong writing practice. We'll start with Keats' notion of negative capability, […]
The Community of Writers Presents A Short Course: C.D. Wright — An American Original
From the organizers: "The Community of Writers is honored to present a five-week intensive series on the life and work of poet C.D. Wright taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander and Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet Brenda Hillman. Gander and Hillman will guide participants through an overview of Wright’s extraordinary writing. The course will be […]
The Community of Writers: Rediscovering Sylvia Plath with Victoria Chang & Matthew Zapruder
From the organizers: "When we think of Sylvia Plath, it’s easy to see the image of the electric confessional poet who took her own life. Her tragic personal history, including her marriage to Ted Hughes, can easily obscure her poetry. But when we return to the work itself, we see a poet of genius, who […]