Community Hour
Calling all writers, artists, readers, musicians, and organizers! Join us for our first community hour
Calling all writers, artists, readers, musicians, and organizers! Join us for our first community hour
Poets Carolyn Oliver and Hannah Larrabee will read from their respective collections and discuss both creativity and craft.
Multi-lingual poets Dzvinia Orlowsky and María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado will read from their respective bodies of work and discuss their poetry and creative processes.
A generative course that will look attentively at poems by Ai, Lucie Brock-Broido, and Patricia Smith among others. We'll explore ways to enter persona and deepen the imaginative possibilities of writing outside ourselves.
Calling all writers, artists, readers, musicians, and organizers! Join us for our second community hour in which will come together to share project ideas, recommendations, and ways to support each other going forward. The event will be facilitated and we'll make use of breakout rooms and the chat feature!
Poets Cynthia Marie Hoffman and Sarah Kain Gutowski will read from their collected works, with an emphasis on their newest respective collections, both of which are cohesively themed (Cynthia’s is a memoir in prose poems, Sarah’s is a fabulist narrative in poems).
Poems as letters, letters as poems: We will read and discuss a range of letter poems including those from Pauletta’s collection Friend, and use writing and revision prompts to help us write our own poems from this rich and varied epistolary poetry tradition.
Emotional openness. An invitation to think together. Fleda Brown and Anne-Marie Oomen aren’t just contemporaries; they’re friends and deep admirers of each other’s work.
Massachusetts poets and friends Richard Hoffman and January Gill O'Neil join The Notebooks Collective for an evening of craft, conversation, and literary citizenship. About Richard Richard Hoffman has published five books of poetry, Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from The New England […]
This class is ideal for writers at all levels interested in exploring experimental forms of nonfiction...
Two poets interested in affairs of the heart and the abiding loneliness at the center of the human experience. Two poets who overlapped at Warren Wilson's MFA program yet who have different styles of writing. Expect them to talk about maintaining a creative practice alongside life's many competing demands (both in school and after it), […]
Join us for a celebration of the launch of Incidental Pollen, the debut full-length collection from Ellen Austin-Li. She will be joined by her friend and mentor, poet Pauletta Hansel. Expect some poems and some conversation around the making of this beautiful new collection. INCIDENTAL POLLENRUNNER-UP FOR THE 2023 ARTHUR SMITH POETRY PRIZE Incidental pollen […]