We’re used to the idea of a poem or essay being inspired by something in the world. But what if the world inspires through shape instead of content–the shape of a tree, the functionality of a knife, or the structure of a familiar document? We’ll look at examples of poems that work with organic and […]
There are as many ways to organize a collection of poems as there are poets who write them. And yet there are strategies and principles that can be useful across these differences.
Family stories can help create the path into a greater understanding of our individual and collective history.
Join us for a reading and a raising of funds for direct aid to Gaza.
Join us on May 14th to celebrate new books, friendship, and the act of creating.
A class with poet Eileen Cleary
Writers Jessica Johnson & Tyler Mills join the Notebooks Collective to discuss their new memoirs, Mettlework and The Bomb Cloud, which both invoke their family history and how the personal and the politic intertwine. About Mettlework "...The resulting journey encompasses Johnson’s early memories, the story of the earth told in the language of geology, bits […]
In Conversation with Eugenia Leigh & Diannely Antigua
In Conversation with Karen Rigby & Danika Stegeman
Join us for a class with poet Sara Moore Wagner about using history to make myth
Join us for an In Conversation with Marcus Myers & Rivka Clifton, co-editors of Bear Review.
A reading with Eric Doise, Lauren Carlson and Halley Cotton to celebrate the work of poet and writer Saara Myrene Raappana.
