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September 2020
Poetry Path Workshop with Charles Waters
Children’s poet, actor, and educator Charles Waters takes us on an educational tour of the Poetry Path with readings and writing prompts!
Find out more »June 2020
Attending to Everyday Ecstasy with Betsy Fagin
With guidance from Mary Oliver, we will use location to cultivate, listen, and explore our “place in the family of things.” Six Thursdays, June 11–July 16
Find out more »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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »May 2020
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.
Find out more »April 2020
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.
Find out more »CANCELLED: 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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »March 2020
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!
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