Workshops & Master Classes
Six-Week Video Conference Workshops
Open to all levels, six-week courses are offered on a wide variety of topics. Register early—first come, first serve. Fee: $325.
Sorcerer’s Apprentice with Desirée Alvarez: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop
How do we enact transformation and instill surprise in our writing? We will both workshop student poems and conjure new ones, over six Wednesdays in April.
Poetics of Terror: Visceral Performance & Cyborg/Trans Poetics with Andrea Abi-Karam: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop
Andrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg and author. Six Thursdays, April 16–May 21, registration deadline: April 3.
Dream Work/Poem Work with Cynthia Cruz: Six-Week Video Conference Workshop
Cynthia Cruz is the author of five collections of poetry. “Guidebooks for the Dead” is forthcoming. Six Saturdays, April 18–May 23.
Free Online Video Workshops
Our library is closed for health concerns but Poets House is bringing you online Workshops to keep our community thriving.
10*10*10: Week Two of Free Video Workshops with Dave Johnson
Join Dave Johnson at 10am to write a new poem in only 10 minutes. We’ll present a new video every weekday for 10 days. For teens to adults. Free!
…Online Video Conference Master Classes
Our library is closed for health concerns but Poets House is bringing you online Master Classes to keep our community thriving. Master Classes offer advanced writers of poetry an opportunity to work intensively with some of the most respected poets of our time. An application of three poems is required, sent through Submittable; space is limited. Fee: $395.
Online Video Conference Master Class With Mark Doty: Writing the Self in Time
Paying attention to time in our work can add dimension and suggest new structural possibilities. Saturday, April 4 & Sunday, April 5.
Online Video Conference Master Class with Major Jackson: Imagining What We Cannot See
The poems we most cherish possess and refract the richness of complex existence and help us see what lies beyond. Saturday, May 16 & Sunday, May 17.
Six-Week Summer Workshops
Open to all levels, six-week courses are offered on a wide variety of topics. Register early—first come, first serve. Fee: $325.
Writing With Animals with Alan Felsenthal: Summer Workshop
Animals can be seen as familiars, part-human creatures, gods, even value concepts. Turned into symbols and metaphors. Six Tuesdays, June 9–July 14.
Thirst & Glitter: Queer Poetics with Jesse Rice-Evans
This workshop will focus on contemporary queer and trans poetry, exploring work by poets working at the intersections of embodiment, desire, and language.
Attending to Everyday Ecstasy with Betsy Fagin
With guidance from Mary Oliver, we will use Poets House’s waterfront location to cultivate, listen, and explore our “place in the family of things.”
One-Day Workshops
We offer writing workshops and seminars that focus on a special topic over the course of a day or afternoon. These offerings are designed for those who may not have the time for a longer sequence of classes. Fee: $0 for walking workshops on the Poetry Path, (that’s right, free!); $95 for three-hour workshops; $110 for four-hour workshops.
Check back later in 2020 for more one-day offerings!
Walking Workshops on The Poetry Path With Chen Chen, Tommy Pico & Jessica Greenbaum
These intimate poet-led tours of the Poetry Path by three poets featured on the path are free to all with advance registration.
Refund Policy
- Requests for refunds must be received in writing. To request a refund, email Gia Gonzales at gabriella@poetshouse.org.
- Poets House retains a $60 processing fee on any Six-Week Workshop or Master Class refund, or a $20 processing fee on any One-Day Workshop refund.
- Refunds will not be issued after the following deadlines, regardless of participation. For Six-Week Workshops: tuition (less processing fee) is refundable until the second class meeting. For Master Classes: refund requests must be made at least 24 hours prior to the first meeting.
- Tuition will not be pro-rated for missed classes.
- Six registrants are required in order for a class to run. If a course fails to meet the minimum registration, it will be cancelled and full tuition will be refunded to all registrants.