Intensive Workshops

Sat, Sep 12
Poems of the Air: The Poetics of Feathers & Flight with Brian Turner (Zoom)
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Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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From the birds that sing and nest and fly into our poems to our planetary journey through the cosmos, in this generative workshop we’ll focus on the nature of flight and how we might explore the experience of flight in our verses.
Sun, Sep 13
"A Sign We Are From God": The Poetics of Incongruity with Joan Kwon Glass (Zoom)
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Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
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Together in this single session, generative workshop, we will read and write poems about human behavior, disconnection and the divine.
Sat, Sep 19
You Gotta Laugh...Poetry and Humor with Caitlin McDonnell (Zoom)
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Sep 19, 2026, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
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In this workshop, we will talk about the interesting and longstanding relationship between poetry and comedy, read funny poems and not- so-funny poems, write, maybe laugh and/or cry and come out with a few new poem drafts.
Sun, Sep 20
Come Into Your Shell: Non-Literary Forms In Poetry with Denise Duhamel (Zoom)
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Sep 20, 2026, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
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In this generative workshop we will consider looking outside traditional forms in order to make poems.
Sat, Sep 26
Sports Poetry Writing Workshop with Matthew Johnson (Zoom)
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Sep 26, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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This workshop will introduce participating writers to the growing field of sports poetry and provide practical tools for creating and sharing their work.
Sat, Sep 26
Timeline Shifts: Become a Time Traveler of Story with Alaya Dawn Johnson (Zoom)
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Sep 26, 2026, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
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In this 4 hour fiction intensive we will cover the major kinds of timeline shifts, read examples of each, explore pitfalls and challenges, and troubleshoot our own approaches.
Sun, Sep 27
It’s Magic What We Do: The Blues Poem with Junious 'Jay' Ward (Zoom)
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Sep 27, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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We’ll discuss the origin of the Blues, examine lyrics as poetic works, and delve into our own personal histories for moments of reclamation that jump off the page.
Sat, Oct 03
Poetry And The Visual World: Image, Description, Metaphor with Christina Pugh (Zoom)
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Oct 03, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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This course will explore the various ways that poetry can inhabit the visual world, by looking closely at poems by Sylvia Plath, Charles Wright, and others. Our course will also include writing prompts focusing on image, description, and metaphor.

Multi-Week Workshops

Wed, Aug 19
Writing the Prose of Psychology, Obsession, and Interiority with Austyn Wohlers (Zoom)
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Aug 19, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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In this class, we will practice writing fiction of intense interiority, studying the works of Lispector and Kang alongside others such as Kavan, Bernhard, Ferrante, Haushofer, Quin, and Hilst.
Tue, Sep 08
Homes and Hauntings: A Six-Week Close Reading and Generative Poetry Workshop with Emily Leithauser (Zoom)
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Sep 08, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
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Each class will begin with a close reading and discussion of poems exploring what it means for places, domestic spaces, and/or people to feel haunted. The second half of the class will be devoted to workshopping students’ poems.
Wed, Sep 09
Beckett and Playwriting with Lily Akerman (Zoom)
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Sep 09, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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In this 6-week workshop, we will read short plays by Samuel Beckett and use them as jumping off points to write our own short plays.
Thu, Sep 10
Workshop of Pure Critique with Peter Bricklebank (Zoom)
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Sep 10, 2026, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
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Whether writing in a garret, ivory tower, pandemic lockdown or a fever pitch of blind faith, at some point writers need a hothouse workshop environment in which to appraise and develop their work. Participants will test chapters or extracts from their novels and memoirs or short stories and essays.
Sun, Sep 13
Reading and Writing a Memoir of Social Justice with Michael Klein (Zoom)
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Sep 13, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
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In this 4-week workshop, we will read the work of writers including Arundhati Roy, Chase Twitchell, Ilya Kaminsky, James Baldwin and others that face the world as it is in real time and we will generate new work that faces that same world while applying our singular despair and hope.
Mon, Sep 14
Monday Night Poetry Workshop: Writing Into the Risk and Dream with Chen Chen (Zoom)
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Sep 14, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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In this fall 6-week class we will read with great appetite and delight. We will engage with multiple histories and ways of knowing. We will dream. Write. Rewrite. We will risk and wreck and rebuild. **Please note this is a new session, added after the April workshop sold out. **
Tue, Sep 15
Introduction to the Short Story with Radhika Sharma (Zoom)
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Sep 15, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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This intricate and intensive 6-week class will explore and expound on the various facets of the modern short story and its evolution leading to the current form of narrative.
Wed, Sep 16
Telling Stories: The Art of Biography with Stephanie Stein Crease (Zoom)
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Sep 16, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Have you ever had the urge to write about a friend or family member? Or, maybe about an artist, actress, historical figure, or someone who inspires you, and tell their story?