Studios

Enter a space you can return to.

Studios are immersive, on-demand experiences you can enter at your own rhythm, at your own pace. Enjoy your studio for a full year.

Studio

$79 or 2 monthly payments of $40

It's Elemental: The Art of Revision

Water, fire, earth, air: each of these elements has characteristics that we can apply to our poems to engage the senses. This workshop takes as its premise that the best poetry happens when it invokes one or more of these basic elements. Through this lens, and accompanied by concrete exercises and craft techniques recommended by the greats, you will watch your works-in-progress mature to their full potential.

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$79 or 2 monthly payments of $40

I’m With The Banned—Celebrating & Exercising Our Freedom To Read & Write: Independent Study

Banned: Akhmatova, Whitman, Ginsberg, García Lorca, and yes, even Silverstein. In this workshop, you’ll read them all! Focusing on craft techniques that foster expression—the long line, repetition, vivid imagery, and the power of reading aloud—you’ll exercise your right to write, creating poems that honor the giants on whose shoulders we stand: men and women who refused to be silenced.

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$79 or 2 monthly payments of $40

Journaling for Poets

Poets are observers. One way to keep track of your observations and ideas is through a writing journal. In this workshop, we'll cover methods of processing and keeping track of your thoughts, of improving your writing life, and working towards a career as a writer. In this workshop, you'll cover how to manage large ideas or projects, track submissions, create goals, revise, and more.

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$79 or 2 monthly payments of $40

Naming the Song: A Making & Mending Workshop

In A Primer for Poets (2018), Gregory Orr presents a “theory of language,” based on language's functions of naming, singing, saying, and imagining. In this workshop, you’ll investigate these four modes of language and how to make the best use of them in our poetry. You’ll read excerpts from Orr’s work, then, using these modes as templates, participants will either “make” new poems or “mend” old ones.

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Not Your Mama's Sonnet: Independent Study

Sonnet means “little song.” In the introduction to The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Phillis Levin calls the sonnet “a monument of praise, a field of play, a chamber of sudden change.” This fourteen-line form provokes, polarizes, and galvanizes people. In this workshop, you’ll learn about the Italian and English sonnets, the curtal sonnet, the Spenserian sonnet, and the sonnetoid, any poem of fourteen lines.

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$49 or 2 monthly payments of $25

Plague, Pestilence, Pandemic: Writing Poems In A Time Of Affliction (Independent Study)

In this workshop, we’ll look at specific examples of how poets from the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries have written about health crises such as bubonic plague, Spanish flu, AIDS, and Covid-19. Readings and prompts will illustrate/model varied approaches to writing about illness, medicine, and healing, focusing on specific forms (e.g. persona poems, odes, and elegies), techniques, and strategies.

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$79 or 2 monthly payments of $40

Poetry is Not a Luxury: Writing as Essential Act (Independent Study)

In her essay, “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” Audre Lorde tells us that poetry “is a vital necessity of our existence.” Still, many of us struggle to get to our writing with regularity. In this workshop, you’ll apply the tenets of Lorde’s essay to your own writing lives and, in her sage words, “pursue [y]our magic and make it real.” Each lesson offers several prompts for those poems gathering dust in your desk drawer.

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$79 or 2 monthly payments of $40

Poets in the World: A Field Guide

Zoomed out? Grab your favorite journal and get out into the world—of poetry. In this self-paced workshop you’ll become a poetic field-agent, immersing yourself in the physical world in whatever way you can.

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$79 or 2 monthly payments of $40

Portraits & Personas: A Generative Poetry Workshop

Poets often push the boundaries of language and imagination in their work, examining both the self and others. But how do we do this with sensitivity and insight? How do we write in other voices without appropriating others’ lives? In this workshop, you will explore these tough questions through serious play, by experimenting with prompts that will encourage poets to write with verve and precision.

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$79 or 2 monthly payments of $40

Queer Poetics

This workshop is an intersectional primer on LGBTQIA+ writers throughout the history of poetry. We’ll explore poets like Walt Whitman, Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde, but also contemporary poets who have catapulted into the mainstream like Jericho Brown and Danez Smith. This class is both for writers who want to explore their queerness and writers who want to learn more about queer poetry.

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$79 or 2 monthly payments of $40

Remember the Spell: Writing in Meter

Meter is the drumbeat that thrums under the skin of all poems. But for more than a century, free verse has occupied the dominant position in American poetry. Metrical poems have never entirely lost their appeal: one rooted in the body, and evident to the ear. In this studio, you'll explore the most popular meters: dactyls, trochees, anapests, and iambs and write poems in each, reclaiming and harnessing meter's power.

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