Workshops & Classes
Poets House offers six-week open-enrollment poetry workshops, weekend Master Classes, and one-day open enrollment writing workshops and seminars, providing learning opportunities for a variety of interests and skill levels.
Most class enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis, and we encourage you to enroll early. Enrollment is complete when full payment for tuition has been received.
Spring 2019 Workshops & Classes
The Sonnet with Bhisham Bherwani
A workshop with Bhisham Bherwani in which students will outline, compose, and revise sonnets to create their own short manuscripts.
Our Poetry, Our Selves with J. Mae Barizo
A workshop with J. Mae Barizo, in which students will examine the multiplicity of self and its relationship to private and public histories.
Memory as Renewal: Dedications, Portraits & Elegies with Barbara Henning
A workshop with Barbara Henning in which students will read and write poems that celebrate, honor, and mourn important people in their lives.
Master Classes
Master Classes, which usually meet Saturday and Sunday, 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.
Check back soon for a summer 2019 Master Class with Robert Pinsky!
Six-Week Open-Enrollment Workshops
Open to all levels, six-week courses are offered on a wide variety of topics. Register early—first come, first served. Fee: $325.
The Sonnet with Bhisham Bherwani
A workshop with Bhisham Bherwani in which students will outline, compose, and revise sonnets to create their own short manuscripts.
Memory as Renewal: Dedications, Portraits & Elegies with Barbara Henning
A workshop with Barbara Henning in which students will read and write poems that celebrate, honor, and mourn important people in their lives.
Our Poetry, Our Selves with J. Mae Barizo
A workshop with J. Mae Barizo, in which students will examine the multiplicity of self and its relationship to private and public histories.
Special One-Day Workshops
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 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.