Upcoming Classes
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Joseph Stanton: Nature Poetry
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesSep 30 & Oct 1: Joseph Stanton teaches strategies on writing poems inspired by flora, fauna, and landscapes in the natural world.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Ellen Bass: It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing)
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesOct 1: Ellen Bass teaches us to relish the mouthfeel of words and bring the power of sound into our poems. The lyricism of language is a great joy.
Remote 6-Week Workshop: Anastacia-Renee: Crying Out Loud
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesSix Wednesdays, Oct 11 - Nov 15: examine overarching themes, hybridity, historical nuances, technique, and writing with Anastacia-Renee.
Remote 6-Week Workshop: Daemond Arrindell: Breaking Down History
Zoom Online Video Conference , United States6 Fridays: Oct 13-Nov 17: Daemond Arrindell helps us (de)construct circumstance and perspective, shape narrative and see all pieces of the puzzle.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Craig Santos Perez: Eco-Poetry
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesOct 14: Craig Santos Perez explores the most important poetic movement of our time—touching on ecology, environmental justice, and climate change.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Jessica E. Johnson: Kinship and/in Strangeness
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesOct 15: Jessica E. Johnson explores the uses of associative language, which is at once a core poetic power and, at times, a fraught topic.
Remote 6-Week Workshop: Michael Broder: Taking Your Temperament
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesSix Mondays: 10/16 - 11/20: Michael Broder helps us discover and develop our poetic temperament using Gregory Orr's model.
Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Josephine Ishmon: A Celebration of Life
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesOct 28: Josephine Ishmon leads a celebratory reading class on poems about life, community, and what it means to live.
Remote 4-Week Workshop: Tacey M. Atsitty: Sonnets and Hybridity: Remembering Emblem Poetry
Zoom Online Video Conference , United StatesOct 31 - Nov 21: Tacey M. Atsitty takes a historic look at multimodal emblem poetry (textual and visual literatures) and leads us to create our own.
Remote 6-Week Workshop: David M. Perkins: The Art of it All
Nov 5 - Dec 10: 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.