Poetry Workshop

Strengthen your writing practice as you analyze iconic poems, apply poetic techniques, and craft your own original poetry.

Modern life constantly takes us out of the present moment. We are overwhelmed, worried about the future, and pulled in too many directions. Poetry can return us to the present, allowing us to express ourselves in creative ways. Through demonstrations, discussion, generative exercises, and short craft lectures, this poetry workshop will inspire you to work with language in ways that feel enlivening, fresh, and accessible. All writing levels are welcome.

You'll explore poems by Mary Ruefle, Linda Gregg, Sarah Ruhl, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Joy Harjo, Adam Zagajewski, and others, and then try your hand at free verse poems that are sensory, elemental, and attuned to the complex and ultimately precious multi-dimensionality of our world.

The goal of the workshop is not only to strengthen and nurture your creative expression, but also remind you how good it feels to make art—however humble—in response to our lived experience.