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Discover the art of self-expression through various forms of poetry, from sonnets to haikus, in the vibrant city of New York, where you can learn to embrace your creativity and master the techniques of this timeless art.
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Advanced Poetry with Lynn Melnick
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
This course will explore how we tell our stories through poetry, whether directly or slant, and ways we can be more adventurous, musical and honest. Experience with poetry-writing will be expected. Students will be required to turn in a poem a week to be workshopped by the group. Experience with reading poetry is also a must. Familiarity with the poetry that is being written and published right now is crucial to understanding, appreciating, and...
$25
Writing Out the Bones of Poetry: Experimental Writing
Poetry Teachers NYC @ 244 West 54th St, Brooklyn, NY
In this two day workshop, we will create experiments on the page through spills, cut-ups (inspired by William S. Burroughs) and various prompts leading us out of conventional language and into hybrid dialects. Where is the urgency of your words? How often do you color outside of the lines with your poetics. We will stretch out the margins and encourage each other to break out of our habits. This class will also offer students the opportunity...
All levels
18 and older
Winter Poetry Salon with Pen Parentis
LMHQ @ 150 Broadway, New York, NY
Incredible award-winning poets read from current work and discuss poetry and life-work balance. Laughter, conversation, complimentary wine. Meet exemplary poets Timothy Donnelly, Diane Mehta, Len Lawson and Sarah Kain Gutowski in conversation with M. M. De Voe and Christina Chiu at our annual Winter Poetry Salon - where the audience and the poets really get to know each other! All lovers of the written word are always welcome, 21+, ...
$10
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The Moment of Creation: Poetry/Performance Workshop
Poetry Teachers NYC @ 244 West 54th St, Brooklyn, NY
Performance artist & poet Caitlin Gil will lead this unique poetry/performance workshop, designed to help students explore their creative potential. “The Moment of Creation” consists of 3 Sunday sessions plus a culminating performance at the end of the series. What happens when we sit still? What happens when we move from sitting still? When does it happen? The decision from stillness to movement? The act from mind to the moment of creation? ...
All levels
18 and older
Intro to Poetry Writing
Classeteria @ 284 Suydam St, Brooklyn, NY
What makes a poem a poem? How do poems engage us, surprise us, make us laugh, or give us goosebumps? Emily Dickinson said, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” How do poets make us feel this way? In this workshop you will read modern poets (Dickinson, Frost, Gluck, Neruda, Roethke,Stevens, Tate, Whitman) and develop an awareness of the techniques they use (structure, music, line breaks, stanzas,...
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Summoning The Magic From Your Poetry & Photography
The Tiny Cupboard @ 1717 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY
Summoning The Magic From Your Poetry & Photography Manuscript Do you think your poems and photographs have a power, language, and magic of their own? Maybe they have just the right energy to pair well in a book of poetry and photography. In this intimate workshop, meet author/artist Christine Sloan Stoddard, and go through exercises to help you see the strengths in your work. Together, we will look at sample poetry and photography work, including...
All levels
18 and older
$50
Poetry-writing with Omotara James
The space of the poem offers you the opportunity to free yourself. The work of the poem is to tell the truth: at all costs, in every place, no matter what. It has been said that the poet is the undoing of the family, because the poem reveals its secrets. The craft of undoing is necessary to the work of constructing meaning, no matter your subject matter. Poetry is not only where we go to confront the past, but to free ourselves of it. In...
Bill Goldstein: Making Modernism: Virginia Woolf
Bill Goldstein: Making Modernism: Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster at Work E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) are two of the greatest and most widely read novels of the 20th Century. This August, we will explore the ways in which Forster and Woolf, lifelong friends but also wary rivals, embraced and helped remake modernism. Despite their many literary differences, Woolf thought of...
Master Class: Bill Goldstein
Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster-Aspects of Two Novels: Howards End and To the Lighthouse E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf were lifelong friends and literary rivals and reading their novels in tandem illuminates’ key aspects of their enduring achievements. In this class, we will read two masterpieces of 20th Century English literature: Forster’s Howards End, published in 1910, and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, published in...
Modern Poetry: Memory and Desire
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
“April is the cruelest month,” writes T.S. Eliot in the opening lines of The Waste Land (1922), “breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire.” What does modern poetry remember, and what does modern poetry want? This course, an introduction to the exhilarating, maddening, and strange experiments of twentieth-century poetry, explores how poets responded to the astonishing social, political, aesthetic, and technological...
Hudson Valley Introduction To Poetry (Online)
This class meets by live video; students are not required to live in the area. Students in The Writers Studio Hudson Valley Introduction to Poetry Workshop learn how to create a “persona” or “narrator” for the poetic form. Through the use of Writers Studio exercises, students learn to recognize what makes a poem engaging and entertaining to the reader. While creating a persona narrator is a primary focus of the workshop, students will...
Online Crafting Fantastic and Imaginative Worlds
Your favorite writers and poets of speculative literature (including science fiction, fantasy, and horror) use narrative techniques like persona narrators, point of view, mood, and tone as well as worldbuilding to craft fantastic and imaginative worlds that parallel, reflect, and critique our own real world. Imagining utopias, dystopias, dinosaurs, aliens, monsters, magical beings and systems, sentient cities and starships to speculate about past...
Irish Language Literature: Deoraíocht
The novel's influence, Deoraíocht will be discussed in relation to Deoraíocht and other pioneering works of the same era. The classic Irish Language novel Deoraíocht, by Pádraic Ó Conaire was a pioneering book. Published in 1910 it is arguably the most important novel from the Gaelic revival. Deoraíocht portrays the life of a struggling immigrant in a very raw and honest way. The popular theme of alienation (coimhthíos) & urbanization...
Poetry Path and Practice
Kyle Erickson, former high-school English Teacher (Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences), is leading a workshop for poets of all ages. Every person has poetry in their hearts, regardless of whether or not they know it. Walk in, grab a pen, and have fun!
Turning Your Poetry Into a Multimedia Experience
Poetry Teachers NYC @ 137 Greene St, New York, NY
This workshop will guide students in the use of different digital tools to experiment with mediums and enhance the experience of their poetry. The workshops will consist of 3 Sunday Sessions plus a culminating performance at the end of the series. In this workshop we will focus on getting around performance stereotypes and work on developing your words as visuals using video and computers. We will be looking at the visual text of a poem, making...
All levels
18 and older
$99
From Page To Stage: Poetry Workshops
Poetry Teachers NYC @ 308 Bowery , New York, NY
This workshop will be taught by Megan DiBello, Aimee Herman, and Daniel Dissinger—published poets, professional educators, and the brains behind Poetry Teachers NYC. Our unique, three-instructor approach sets PTNYC workshops apart, bringing multiple poetic perspectives to the table and serving to spark open dialogue. In addition to receiving writing prompts and weekly assignments, students are challenged to get to know their own work through...
All levels
18 and older
Advanced Poetry with Nathalie Handal
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
In this advanced poetry workshop, writers will generate and critique new, original poems as well as develop current works-in-progress through readings, feedback and re-drafting. This workshop will help writers sharpen their writing skills and expand the imaginative boundaries in their work. Discussions will include how to assemble and submit a poetry collection and on the publishing and literary scene. Manuscript submission required: Applications...
Advanced Poetry with Alex Dimitrov
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
In this poetry workshop we will fuse the personal with the surreal and unconscious. We will experiment with various forms, rituals, and techniques to bring forth narratives we’ve always wanted to tell and those we didn’t even know were there. The space of the poem will be treated as an opportunity for chance and the new.
Reading The Plot Against America
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
During our three weeks together, we will read and have a conversation about The Plot Against America, Philip Roth’s alternative historical account of a Jewish boyhood in 1940s Newark, NJ. Roth imagined—or did he?—the confusion, frustration and “perpetual fear” that a freely elected but tyrannical President might visit on an unprepared and vulnerable citizenry. Note: This program is taking place remotely. You will receive an email...
$35
Reading Willa Cather with Benjamin Taylor
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
Willa Cather was her own raw material and self-transformation was her game. The writer who leapt into the forefront of American letters with O Pioneers! was already middle-aged. Slow emergence—by way of provincial journalism in Nebraska, high-school teaching in Pittsburgh, editorial work on various magazines—did not deter her from the ultimate goal, which was literary immortality. Writing to her friend Mariel Gere in August of...
$35
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