Workshops & Classes
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Remote 3-Hour Workshops
June 2023
Enhance your skills and deepen your work through these focused writing workshops. While the Poets House space is still closed for construction, workshops will take place remotely on Zoom.
Fee: $120 ($96 for members) for 3-hour workshops. Check back later for more one-day offerings!
All are welcome, space is limited. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Edwin Torres: Room to Roam
Edwin Torres helps us enrich our natural tri-lingual speaking-seeing-hearing bodies, integrating Sensory Awareness to replenish the languages inside us.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: The axis on which I turn: Asiya Wadud
Thursday, June 8: Through trials and slow accretion, Asiya Wadud helps us cobble together fragments to see what new poems are possible to write.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Lauren Camp: Person to Person
Saturday, June 10, 12-3pm Eastern. New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp guides an exploration the idea of character through unexpected lenses—finding wisdom outside of ourselves.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Leah Umansky: Poets on Poets: Art of the Steal
June 27: Leah Umansky encourages us to model poems on the poems of other poets. After all, what is actually an ‘original poem,’ in these modern times?
Remote 3-Hour Workshops
July 2023
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Neil Aitken: Into the Mirror-Verse
July 8: Neil Aiken explores how science fiction, fantasy, or alternate history can take our poetry writing to new and unexpected places.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Joan Naviyuk Kane: re/vision
July 9: Joan Naviyuk Kane offers concrete approaches to replenishing our creative process, putting revision at easier reach.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Jacqueline Johnson: Practices of Assembly
Wednesday, July 12: Jacqueline Johnson teaches participants different ways one can begin to compile a poetry manuscript in this mini manuscript workshop.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Mark Wunderlich: Toward a Daily Practice of Poetry
July 19: Mark Wunderlich helps us engage in a daily practice of reading and writing poetry, transforming our psyche and leading us to unexpected new work.
Free Online Video Workshops
While the Poets House space is still closed for construction, please check out these past workshops, and check back later for more free online workshop offerings!
10*10*10: 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!
…10*10*10*2: Daily Free Video Workshops with Dave Johnson: Second Series
Starting Monday, April 20. 10AM, Dave Johnson is back for 2 more weeks of free video workshops. Write 10 new poems in 10 days, weekdays at 10AM!
Advanced Workshops
Advanced Workshops 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.
Check back later for Advanced Workshop offerings!
Six-Week Workshops
Refund Policy
- Requests for refunds must be received in writing. To request a refund, email support@poetshouse.org.
- Poets House retains a $60 processing fee on any Six-Week Workshop or Advanced Workshop refund, or a $20 processing fee on any One-Day of 3-Hour 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 Advanced, One-day, or 3-Hour Workshops: 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.