Jun 5th
6:15–8:30pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
Discover the art of self-expression through various forms of poetry, from sonnets to haikus, in the vibrant city of New York, where you can learn to embrace your creativity and master the techniques of this timeless art.
3 classes in-person in NYC have spots left, and 3 classes live online are available.
The Writers Studio @ 272 W 10th St, New York, NY
Explore the transformative power of persona writing in this introspective workshop at The Writers Studio. Discover how borrowing the voices of accomplished writers can unlock your most intimate stories and turn difficult subject matter into inspiration for fiction and poetry. Broaden your literary style and approach as you deepen your understanding of technique.
Jun 5th
6:15–8:30pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
Jun 11th
6:15–8:30pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Anybody can write a poem. Let's explore the art & craft of poetry; learn how to express your feelings, sculpt your ideas, and share your stories, with musical language. Make your words sing. This workshop, suitable for both beginning & advanced writers, is a safe space to explore the tools & techniques of writing poetry. We will examine the poet's toolkit, in a supportive atmosphere, through in-class writing prompts & exercises....
May 15th
6:30–8:30pm EDT
Meets 6 Times
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
What makes a good story tick? In this in-person class, Myla Goldberg will take you under the hood of contemporary realist and fabulist fiction to discuss stories from the perspective of craft. You'll plumb the mysteries of scene, point of view, character development and narrative arc, with each discussion culminating with an in-class guided writing exercise inspired by the story. This is not a workshop: rather than share writing, this class creates...
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The Writers Studio @ Google Meet
Unlock your most intimate and private stories through personal writing in this online workshop. Develop narrative and lyric voices to turn even the most difficult subject matter into inspiration for your fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Broaden your sense of what is possible in your own work and receive constructive critiques from teachers and fellow students.
May 9th
1–2pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
Jun 11th
8–9pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
Jun 19th
8–9pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
Jun 26th
8–9pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
Unleash the power of poetry as you learn to pack a maximum punch with a minimum of words. Discover specialized techniques, demands, and forms of poetry, and master the art of writing exquisite verses that captivate the soul.
Jul 9th
12am–11:45pm EDT
Meets 2 Times
Aug 13th
12am–11:45pm EDT
Meets 2 Times
The Writers Studio @ Google Meet
Develop your narrative and lyric voices in this introductory poetry workshop. Broaden your sense of what is possible in your work as you explore various literary styles and approaches. Join us online to deepen your understanding of the technique and receive constructive critiques from both teachers and fellow students.
Jul 2nd
7:30–8:30pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales takes us back to a time when the sun still revolved around the Earth, and the Earth was at the center of the Divine Plan. How heavily that cosmic order weighs upon the average person! Chaucer, through his collective portrait of a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, takes us into the backwaters of this cosmic order, and helps us to understand what it is like to live life amidst the hierarchies of both...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
“Words are the only melodeon,” Stevens proclaims in his “Adagia,” a collection of aphorisms about the art of poetry. One of the 20th century’s great musical poets, Stevens invites us to think about his often playful, meditative, and philosophical poems in relation to music. In this course, we will explore Stevens’s work (early to late verse, from Harmonium to The Rock) with particular focus on his multiple musical aspects:...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Explore poetry’s divided duty—to celebrate, to commemorate—in this weekend intensive. Working from models by Elizabeth Bishop, John Keats, Pablo Neruda, Sappho and others, students will compose original poems and participate in group discussion. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which song underlies these age-old forms.
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote in a letter that he wanted his poetry to embody “more wreck and less discourse.” Detour away from the well-worn routines of workshop in these dynamic sessions. Rather than laboring to finish or fix drafts, our sessions will be devoted to generative bursts, improvisational drafts, and provocative conversations about language, memory, and the future of what we create. We will seek to unsettle habits...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
How can poets use sonnets to communicate a whole world of thought and emotion in just fourteen lines? Join Rachel Hadas for an immersive weekend looking at how writers have grappled with the sonnet—one of our most durable, versatile, challenging, and generative forms—throughout its long and still evolving history. Each day begins with looking at a wide range of Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets, followed by writing a sonnet of your own.
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
When we consider and write poetry we are often drawn towards inescapably large abstractions such as love, death, and time. What happens when we invest (obsessively, meticulously, and with deep care) in the concrete objects that populate our daily lives? In this four-week workshop we will consider how artists in multiple disciplines have made use of things and thingness, meditating on objects and the worlds and affiliations they create in us. ...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
While Seamus Heaney’s brilliant translation of Beowulf introduced a wider audience to the only Old English epic poem, most contemporary readers have not encountered the fascinating shorter lyrics written in Old English. This course invites readers into the ancient ruins of the English language, moving through some of the most beautiful poems in The Exeter Book, written about a thousand years ago. From the anonymous voices of longing...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Even if we were all to speak the same language, we would speak it differently. This is what makes communication so exciting and so troublesome. For those of us who seek connection that is beyond our personal context, symbolic archetypes can offer a great deal of information. Like math, astrology is a system shared between many cultures (with variation granted for Vedic interpretations); its symbolic correlations can be found in ancient spiritual...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
In this advanced workshop, students strengthen their writing style and voice by addressing lucidity, the musical line and poetic unpredictability and originality — the transformative and magical power of the art. They also delve into poetry from around the world as inspiration for writing assignments. Students are chosen by Emily Fragos on the basis of a manuscript submission. Click here for submission guidelines.
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Italo Calvino is synonymous to readers worldwide of the literary imagination’s power to create alternate worlds of staggering beauty. In this course, we will consider the Italian author’s remarkable mix of compelling cultural analysis and otherworldly fantasy in three of his most enduring works: Invisible Cities, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Our conversations will explore such...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
What is “voice” in fiction? How does one establish voice, sustain it, complicate or even undermine it? In this workshop, we will consider voice as a fundamental problem of craft and narrative, reading literary and theoretical works that illuminate questions of perspective, dialogue, mood, description, structure and tone. We’ll examine all of this in relation to our own short stories, in engaged and constructive discussions of the writing...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Use found materials to create a low-relief shadowbox, filled with a combination of found objects, magazine images and paint. Create visual poetry from the commonplace, inspired by Joseph Cornell. Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if I miss one? A: No, make-up classes are not allowed since other classes may be full. Further, instructors are paid based on the number of students within their own classes, so attending a class outside...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Full Course Name Generative Workshop in Poetry with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs What is it that informs our writing? Is it identity? Our mothers? Politics? Language? In this generative workshop, we will write and talk about what provokes and inspires us to write. Culturally we might write as our ancestors might have spoken. Perhaps some of us are not meant to write in a linear fashion. To be “roundabout” or circular may be closer to how our ears...
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
This master class considers the construction of imagery in poetry—from subject to simile—and how the undertone of music in a line can help bolster that image. From Bishop’s fish to Shaughnessy’s octopus, from Williams’ plums to Hughes’ festering raisin—explore the image: what what drives our lines and what we often find most memorable about a poem.
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