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1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, & 2/25

Furthering Your Writing Habit through Feedback - January 2025

Have you started developing a writing habit and are now ready to take your writing to the next level? Then it is time to incorporate feedback and revision.
1/9, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/6 & 2/13

Intro to Poetry - Spring 2025

Generate new poems in this six-week class designed to kick your writing into gear.
1/13 - 6/16

2025 Poetry Intensive

This class is designed to advance your knowledge, make significant progress on your manuscript and gain momentum toward its completion.
1/21, 2/4 & 2/18

Reading Contemporary Poetry - January 2025

Join Marion and Barbara to discuss these celebrated books by three masters of modern poetry.
2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/4, 3/11 & 3/18

Generative Poetry - Feb 2025

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.
2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12 & 3/19

Elemental: Contemporary Inspiration From the Stage and Page - Jan 2025

This six-week generative writing course will explore contemporary poets, primarily in the Slam poetry community.
2/24, 3/3 & 3/10

Haunting the Obedient Tongue: Hybridity as Anti-Colonial Praxis - Feb 2025

All genres — We will explore how the combination of text with visual elements help us deconstruct language’s power through anti-colonial lenses.
3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24

Poetry Revision - Spring 2025

In this class, we will practice both radical and focused revision strategies while reading and discussing the work of published poets, pre- and post-revision.
3/22

Writing Beyond Our Wounds

Participants will learn ways to use writing and creativity to find their way back to themselves and to persevere through challenging times.
3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8 and 5/15

I Can Hear Her Breathing: Poems that Build New Worlds

Through conscious surrender and creation, we tap into what is longing for our attention to be rebirthed and restored.
4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29 & 5/6

Generative Poetry - Apr 2025

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.
4/3

Poetry Mad Libs: Borrowing Form to Reinvigorate Writing

In this workshop, we’ll look closely at mentor poems to study the specifics of their structure and then use them as a mad-libs-style frame for our own work.
4/9, 4/16, 4/23 & 4/30

Queer Poetics & Trans/Forms: A Poetry Workshop

In this multi-class workshop, we will explore the world of queer and trans poetics and forms, brainstorm, write, play, & invent our own poems, & share.
5/3, 5/10 & 5/17

Poetics of Pleasure

Come steep in the world of the erotic! In this three-part series, we will read and write poetry that centers on pleasure.

2021 Celebration of Writers

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2020 Celebration of Writers - Poetry

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