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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.
Find out more »The Self: Autobiography &/In Poetic Forms with Cynthia Manick
A workshop with Cynthia Manick in which students will explore the multiplicity of identity and the way the “self” can emerge on the page.
Find out more »Poems as Prayers: Writing Toward a Just World with Caits Meissner
A workshop with Caits Meissner in which students will harness “ritual, spellmaking, disruption, and interactive poem-experiments” to write a collective future.
Find out more »To Fire & Surprise: Making New Poems with R. A. Villanueva
A workshop with R. A. Villanueva in which students will use generative writing to “explore the infinite possibilities of our own obsessions, interests, and memories.”
Find out more »Master Class with Robert Pinsky: Leading with Music
A master class with Robert Pinsky on the ways musical elements like melodies, harmonies, and rhythms can influence poetry. Application deadline: June 3rd.
Find out more »April 2019
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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »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.
Find out more »February 2019
Master Class with Dorianne Laux: The Discretion of the Line
A two-day intensive with Dorianne Laux on the line, “the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known, living poems.” Applications closed!
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