Poetry

Participants will be prompted to create literary works inspired by Federico García Lorca’s concept o...

Imagine your poem as though you held a camera and planned a sequence, choosing what to include “in t...

Trauma can shut us down; writing poems can help free us to open up again. This workshop will present...

Revising can be very intimidating territory for all of us, but in this workshop we will take a diffe...

Think now of poetry as a school for emotions, and the lyric has had a revelatory power evoked throug...

If you’re not a poet, or even a writer, no worries. This workshop jump-starts your creativity with f...

Guided by an award-winning and internationally published author of sonnets, villanelles, and other m...

The autobiographical impulse has always been a strong one in American poetry, but it wasn’t until th...

“Make it New” is a writer’s taunt and requirement as they return to the page, and oftentimes the har...

Here’s an opportunity to shed any misconception that poetic forms are only constricting. Inspired by...

This class aims to teach students how to write poems that surprise with imagery and ingenuity. Sever...

What makes a good title? How can a title expand a poem’s meaning and impact? How can a weak one hold...

“Whole-Brain Poetry” is an opportunity to explore some of the many ways poetry interacts with the br...

Drawing from the textures of newspaper headlines and the tenderness of novel pages, we’ll explore ho...

You will transform your day into poetry and fiction. You will make poems and stories from everyday details of your life. We will read and then write poems and stories starting from close observation of our day, from waking to preparing coffee and bread, to recalling a dream, to answering a nagging question from the […]

Although we associate the term "volta" with the traditional sonnet form, it has been used with great...

Music in poetry can be difficult; insist on it too much and the music can overtake meaning, too litt...

In the Persona Poem, or Dramatic Monologue, the poet writes in the voice of another real or imagined...

Robert Frost said, "It's tone I'm in love with; that's what poetry is, tone." The ability to control...

Have you ever wondered how scanning the lines of your first draft can make for a better poem? Here’s...

How to tell your story in pieces Create physical / digital collage poems representing your personal journey(s), origin stories, and / or future aspirations using found imagery and text. This hands-on workshop encourages creative inquiry, experimentation and expression through the art of collaging. Source, sort, and assemble with generative prompt questions in mind. Supplies: Digital: […]

In this workshop, writers will consider end-times poems both ancient and contemporary in order to fi...