Community Hour

Calling all writers, artists, readers, musicians, and organizers! Join us for our first community hour

Free

Writing Persona: When a Mask Is All We Can Bear

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.

$60

Community Hour

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!

Free

In Conversation: Cynthia Marie Hoffman & Sarah Kain Gutowski

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).

Free

Dear Friend: An Epistolary Poetry Class

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.

$60

In Conversation: Fleda Brown & Anne-Marie Oomen

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.

Free

In Conversation: Richard Hoffman & January Gill O’Neil

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 […]

Free

Rumination As Route

This class is ideal for writers at all levels interested in exploring experimental forms of nonfiction...

$60

In Conversation: Jennifer Funk & Megan Pinto

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), […]

Free

Book Celebration: Incidental Pollen by Ellen Austin-Li

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 […]

Free