WELCOME TO THE HVWC CALENDAR: home of all our upcoming readings, events and workshops. You can view by list or calendar (see right menu to choose). Click the colored tabs below to show only specific options. Our workshops run as multi-session series or one-day “intensives.” Note, we list the multi-session courses on the first day they meet only. The full dates of the session are described in the course descriptions. You would need to scroll back to the start date if you needed to enroll for something already underway. But do let us know if you want to join something in midstream since we need the blessing of the instructor. Questions? Email us.
Robert Frost said (I’m paraphrasing) that the final poem in a collection is the book itself. In the same way, if a line is a unit of attention in a poem, the final line of the poem is the poem itself. But–let’s go back to the line! A line is the basic item which separates […]
What does it feel like to be a human on earth during the climate crisis? How can we find the words to express our concern, grief, and awe for this fragile planet that we call our home? In this generative, interactive workshop, we will trace the evolution of nature poetry from the Romantic tradition to […]
This four-hour workshop will begin with sample poems and prompts for revisiting places you’ve called home, for connecting those places with their historical roots and implications, for expanding your conception of what home might mean, and for discovering unexpected techniques to use in this exploration. The rest of each day will be spent discussing your own poems, which […]
In this poetry workshop, we’ll explore the distinctive qualities of a poem in relation to its speaking voice: the characteristics exhibited by a poetic speaker or narrator, and the actual poet behind them. How does the element called “voice” connect a reader and a poem’s speaker, establishing a relationship between them? How does this “voice” […]
This lecture-style presentation will offer students a variety of strategies for sequencing, structuring, sectioning, and titling a full-length poetry manuscript. We will glean insights about these elements of craft from a wide range of published collections, which include Julianna Baggott’s 'Lizzie Borden in Love', Lucie Brock Broido’s 'The Master Letters', Shane McCrae’s 'In the Language […]
Voice in literature can make a story sing, make you sob, and sometimes can make you want to scream. Memoir and personal essay forms also rely on the narrative voice to guide us through a creative work, but it’s up to the writer to craft a voice that is distinct and an entity separate from […]