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 […]
A long-time friendship across continents. Both with roots in Washington, D.C. and with a deep attention to the world. Join us for an In Conversation to discuss their new work and relationship with writing. Marcela says, "What excites me about speaking to Brandel about Locomotion Cathedral is her mindful examination of the role of the […]
This is a class in dualities: two forms, two poems. (In two hours!) The two forms: We’ll explore the prose poem (a hybrid of prose and poetry) and the prose poem as memoir (a lyric rendering of a narrative or moment from your life). The two poems: Taking inspiration from the diptych in art (a […]
We welcome Valerie Smith & Monica Lee Weatherly to The Notebooks Collective in August. We are thrilled to have these two poet-educators join us to talk about working in community, sharing cultural histories, and the importance of place. Valerie writes, "I am thrilled to be In Conversation with the community of writers and teachers because […]
We welcome Taylor Byas & jason b. crawford to The Notebooks Collective in September. We are thrilled to have these two brilliant poets join us to talk about craft, friendship, using poetry as a means to reckon with oppression and more. When asked why they want to be in conversation, they said:Sometimes your writing friends […]
We welcome Iain Haley Pollock & Nathan McClain to The Notebooks Collective in October. We are thrilled to have these two brilliant poets join us to talk about craft, creativity, new work and more. Iain will be reading from his newest collection, All the Possible Bodies. Iain Haley Pollock Iain Haley Pollock is the author […]
Longtime poetry collaborators, Zoë Ryder White and Nicole Callihan will read from their collaborative works and discuss their process. The two began collaborating in 1999 and have two published chapbooks--A Study in Spring, winner of the Baltic Writing Residency Prize (2015) and Elsewhere, winner of the Sixth Finch Chapbook Prize (2020)--as well as many other works in […]
We welcome M. Soledad Caballero and Catherina Coenen to The Notebooks Collective to read from their new books. In addition, there will be a lively conversation about the thematic connections in their books including illness and the body as well as the commitment to female lineages, in particular around ideas of memory and storytelling. More […]
Frederico Garcia Lorca said “a poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.” And what better to way to be a teacher of the senses than by looking at food as a source of inspiration? Marianne and Traci have both baked lines full of flavor and memory into […]
Two poets who have crossed paths in readings and at conferences and have found that they are writing about something that shows up differently for each of them -- maternal estrangement. This conversation will cover how our work evolves as we age and how writing such a viscerally personal experience can also be universal. Lisa […]
Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Sasha Waters: A Handsome Life In this conversation poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi and filmmaker Sasha Waters will discuss Sasha's American Masters documentary about Mary Oliver (forthcoming Spring 2026) as a means of entering into the good deep work of figuring what one might mean by "a handsome life": a phrase that Oliver coined […]