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November 2019
Master Class with Jericho Brown: In the Tradition
A master class with Whiting Writer’s Award–winning poet Jericho Brown. Application deadline: October 15.
Find out more »October 2019
Dreams & Diaspora: Exploring Speculative Poetics with Bryan Thao Worra
Workshop participants will examine speculative poetry from the Southeast Asian diaspora(s) & beyond, reconciling memory, healing & the search for a future.
Find out more »Direct Address: Writing New Poems with Emily Hunt
Workshop participants will create new work, exploring the urgency, clarity, volition, and sensuality that can surface when writing to someone or something.
Find out more »Witness: A Poetry Writing and Performance Workshop with Rosamond S. King
In this workshop, students will engage in both writing and performance exercises, practicing witnessing others’ lives, their own, and the city around them.
Find out more »Alter | Altar II: Sigil, Soma, Score, Salve with ELÆ (Lynne DeSilva-Johnson)
Participants will draw on source texts & media, ephemera, detritus, found language, list-making & the epistolary form to create genre-challenging work.
Find out more »Finding Your Voice and Your Duende: Writing Poems of Love and Death with Sarah Arvio
In this workshop, students will think about what makes a poem move us—what gives it “duende”—and how to cultivate the voice as an expression of self.
Find out more »You Are Here: Poems of Place with KC Trommer
This generative workshop with KC Trommer aims to use participants’ personal geographies to create work that examines one’s own place in the world.
Find out more »September 2019
Re-Cognition, Re-Vision, and Revelation: Pushing the Boundaries of Your Poems with Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs
In this workshop with Nickole Brown & Jessica Jacobs, students will learn to infuse revision with the creative energy that accompanies writing early drafts.
Find out more »June 2019
Writing in Response to Gay New York: A Writing Workshop for Seniors with Michael Klein
A workshop for seniors in the context of Gay New York: Walt Whitman to the Present, an art exhibition documenting LGBTQ landmarks and sites.
Find out more »It’s About Time: Writing Workshop for Seniors with Dave Johnson
A free narrative poetry workshop for poets who have lived some life and are ready to tell about it, led by poet and educator Dave Johnson.
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