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Workshops
November 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. The link will be sent, along with any documents to be previewed, in advance of the workshop date.
Tuition:
3-Hour Workshops: $105 ($90 for members)
4-Week Workshop: $200 ($180 for members)
6-Week Workshops: $360 ($320 for members)
All are welcome, space is limited. A number of need-based scholarships are available. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions.
Remote 6-Week Workshop: Susan Comninos: The Mythic “I”
Jan 9-Feb 13: In this six-week reading, writing, and discussion course—explore the creation of speakers who are virtuous, special—and not quite real.
Remote 6-Week Workshop: David M. Perkins: The Art of it All
Nov 26 – Jan 7: David M. Perkins leads a 6-week craft-based, hands-on workshop: bring your own poems—and bring a scalpel to dissect what works in a poem.
Workshops
December 2023
All are welcome, space is limited. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Kwame Dawes: Against the “Line-break”
Dec 3: Kwame Dawes explores the possibilities inherent in thinking of the poetic line as a key source of great possibility and meaning in the poem.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Brian Turner: These Humming Engines
Dec 2: Brian Turner focuses on dreamscapes, poems of the underworld within, & that state where language and image meld as story gives way to song.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Kay Ulanday Barrett: Disabled Poetics & Crip Ecologies
Kay Ulanday Barrett delves into Disabled poetics and Crip Ecologies in their many hybrid, justice-informed, climate-aware, and multi-approach radiances.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Anastacia-Renee: Crying Out Loud
Dec 9: examine overarching themes, hybridity, historical nuances, techniques, and writing with Anastacia-Renee.
Workshops
January 2024
In-person workshops are held at Poets House, 10 River Terrace in lower Manhattan (corner of Murray Street and River Terrace in Battery Park City). Please check-in at the Welcome desk in the Atrium, where you will be directed to your workshop. Be kind, arrive on time.
All are welcome, space is limited. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions.
In-Person 4-Week Workshop: Estha Weiner: There Are People Out There
Jan 6 – Jan 27: Esta Weiner leads us as we read our work aloud. We’ll listen, discuss, and offer helpful responses. How do you serve your audience?
Hybrid 6-Week Workshop: Keisha-Gaye Anderson: You Heard Write!
Jan 25-Feb 29: Keisha-Gaye Anderson teaches techniques for better listening and creating clearer channels for your intelligence to really shine through.
6-Week Workshop: Neil Shepard: The Whole Poem
Jan 24 – Mar 6: Neil Shepard takes us from first draft to final poem, with strategies for unlocking the full potential of content and form.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Kelly Weber: Songlike as a Snake
In this generative session, we will examine and discuss contemporary poetic series and sequences such as the sonnet crown and the serial poem.
Workshops
February 2024
All are welcome, space is limited. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions.
4-Week Workshop: Christopher Rey Pérez: Heart Tattoos
Christopher Rey Pérez starts with the tat-tat of pen on paper, looking at marks, figures, designs, words, and using the body as a record.
Six-Week Workshops
Open to all levels, six-week courses are offered on a wide variety of topics. Register early—first come, first serve.
Check back later for more Six-Week Workshop offerings!
Remote 6-Week Workshop: Susan Comninos: The Mythic “I”
Jan 9-Feb 13: In this six-week reading, writing, and discussion course—explore the creation of speakers who are virtuous, special—and not quite real.
Remote 6-Week Workshop: David M. Perkins: The Art of it All
Nov 26 – Jan 7: David M. Perkins leads a 6-week craft-based, hands-on workshop: bring your own poems—and bring a scalpel to dissect what works in a poem.
Hybrid 6-Week Workshop: Keisha-Gaye Anderson: You Heard Write!
Jan 25-Feb 29: Keisha-Gaye Anderson teaches techniques for better listening and creating clearer channels for your intelligence to really shine through.
6-Week Workshop: Neil Shepard: The Whole Poem
Jan 24 – Mar 6: Neil Shepard takes us from first draft to final poem, with strategies for unlocking the full potential of content and form.
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!
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.