• In Conversation: Michael Kleber-Diggs & Danusha Laméris

    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 […]

  • Organic & Inorganic Forms – Poem & Lyric Essay

    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 […]

    $70
  • Developing Your Poetry Manuscript

    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.

    $25
  • Finding the Poem in Family Stories

    Family stories can help create the path into a greater understanding of our individual and collective history.

    $50

    The Notebooks Reading

    Join us for a reading and a raising of funds for direct aid to Gaza.

    $20
  • In Conversation: Jessica E. Johnson & Tyler Mills

    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 […]

    Free
  • Turning History into Folklore

    Join us for a class with poet Sara Moore Wagner about using history to make myth

    $60