Past Programs and Recordings
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Sunu P. Chandy: Poetry that Keeps Us Going
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesSep 23: Sunu P. Chandy asks if lines of poetry can help us maintain perspective, stay hopeful, and hold fast to that which is good?
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Iain Haley Pollock: Epiphanic Poems
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesSep 23: Poems often develop through indirection and circling without arrival. Iain Haley Pollock has us step to stage front and say exactly what we mean.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Joseph Stanton: Nature Poetry
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesSep 30 & Oct 1: Joseph Stanton teaches strategies on writing poems inspired by flora, fauna, and landscapes in the natural world.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Ellen Bass: It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing)
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesOct 1: Ellen Bass teaches us to relish the mouthfeel of words and bring the power of sound into our poems. The lyricism of language is a great joy.
Remote 6-Week Workshop: Anastacia-Renee: Crying Out Loud
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesSix Wednesdays, Oct 11 - Nov 15: examine overarching themes, hybridity, historical nuances, technique, and writing with Anastacia-Renee.
Remote 6-Week Workshop: Daemond Arrindell: Breaking Down History
Zoom Online Video Conference , United States6 Fridays: Oct 13-Nov 17: Daemond Arrindell helps us (de)construct circumstance and perspective, shape narrative and see all pieces of the puzzle.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Craig Santos Perez: Eco-Poetry
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesOct 14: Craig Santos Perez explores the most important poetic movement of our time—touching on ecology, environmental justice, and climate change.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Jessica E. Johnson: Kinship and/in Strangeness
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesOct 15: Jessica E. Johnson explores the uses of associative language, which is at once a core poetic power and, at times, a fraught topic.
Remote 6-Week Workshop: Michael Broder: Taking Your Temperament
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesSix Mondays: 10/16 - 11/20: Michael Broder helps us discover and develop our poetic temperament using Gregory Orr's model.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Josephine Ishmon: A Celebration of Life
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesOct 28: Josephine Ishmon leads a celebratory reading class on poems about life, community, and what it means to live.
See the full list of all past PH programs, 1986 to the present