We offer new classes in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, and other topics each season.
Jan
22
This workshop will detail the ekphrastic process and provide prompts that will serve you whenever you face the blank page. Elizabeth will guide you to respond to visual and musical […]
Feb
10
Though we’re rightly inspired to write about the things we know best, sometimes looking out and around to the worlds we don’t know brings opportunities for expansive new poetry. Sustained […]
Feb
17
The prose poem as we know it today was “invented” as a type of subversive activity: to escape the rules of strict meter and rhyme that defined most poetry in […]
Mar
7
Turn ordinary life into legend. In this generative workshop, we’ll remake and rewrite folktales as poetry, giving contemporary experiences (grief, work, love, place) a modern mythic frame. Participants will draft […]
Mar
12
In this workshop, participants will explore poetic devices beyond the lineation toolkit or completely outside of it. While we will focus on writing the prose poem, we will touch on […]
Mar
31
Spend some time in a workshop setting writing new poems, revising old ones, and sharing your poems with others in class. This workshop will focus on the basics, such as […]
Apr
9
It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. –William Carlos Williams […]
May
12
Revision as Cooking, Revision as Childrearing, Revision as Midwifing, Revision as a Poet’s Superpower A draft of a poem isn’t a broken thing that needs to be fixed. It’s not […]
