Poet Tricia Bogle and Artist Shu Tu will discuss their current ekphrastic exhibit, In a Garden of Small Dreams: Art + Poetry in Conversation, at the Hamilton Grange branch of the New York Public Library. Learn more about this poet and artist in the bios below. Free About Shu Tu Shu Tu has earned her Bachelor of […]
Poet Jessica Johnson will lead this class on how to turn ordinary experiences into extraordinary literary work.
Poets JP Perrine and Jen Shin will read from their collected works and discuss the writing life. Learn more about these poets in the bios below. About JP Perrine Jennifer (JP) Perrine is the author of four books of poetry: Again; The Body Is No Machine; In the Human Zoo; and No Confession, No Mass. […]
Poets and essayists Michael Kleber-Diggs and Danusha Laméris will read from their collected works and discuss the writing life. Learn more about these poets in the bios below. About Michael Kleber-Diggs Michael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) (he / him / his) is currently writing a memoir about his complicated history with lap swimming called My Weight […]
Poet Sara Moore Wagner will help your reclaim the fairy tale and revision the myth in this generative class.
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 on May 14th to celebrate new books, friendship, and the act of creating.
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 […]