LAST CHANCE to register for our immersive, intensive short-term professional development course with Jay Deshpande (@jdeshpan) & Miller Oberman (@MillerOberman) on the craft of teaching creative writing. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/te...
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Early registration is now open for our fall workshops, online and in-person, ft. Robert Wood Lynn, Joan Kwon Glass, Cynthia Cruz, Karl Michael Iglesias & more! Through August 16, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops. Register at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
THIS SUNDAY! Craft Lab: “Demystifying the Volta & Writing Towards Transformation” w/ Omotara James. We’ll explore how to write toward transformation when we are not yet certain what waits on the other side of our own journeys. brooklynpoets.org/events/all/d...
LAST CHANCE to save $15 or apply for financial aid for this immersive, intensive short-term professional development course with Jay Deshpande (@jdeshpan) & Miller Oberman (@MillerOberman) featuring five modules on the craft of teaching creative writing. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/te...
Join us on Friday, August 14 for our next Yawp, led by Vanessa Jimenez Gabb. Vanessa will lead a workshop on "Clean Lines: Writing Toward Clarity, Precision & Refinement," drawn from her upcoming fall workshop. Virtual options available! events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...
LAST CHANCE: The world can feel overwhelmingly large, long as infinity itself, archive piled upon archive, but poets often contend with this vastness through brevity. In this six-week, online workshop with dawn lonsinger, we'll learn the power of concision. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
LAST CHANCE for this five-week, generative online workshop with grace (ge) gilbert! Study the poetics of bleeding and find doors into writing our own experiences of gendered and marginalized pain. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/r...
Join us for an immersive, intensive short-term professional development course with Jay Deshpande & Miller Oberman (@milleroberman.bsky.social) featuring five modules on the craft of teaching creative writing. Financial aid available—apply by July 30th. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/te...
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER! Punctuation can be a great challenge, and it can make or break a poem. If you find yourself questioning which punctuation marks to use, why to use them, and when and where they go, this in-person, two-session workshop with Tara Skurtu is for you. buff.ly/BoGQ4fi
LAST CHANCE for this workshop with Gbenga Adesina: As public griefs collide with private losses, what can the everyday artifacts of our lives teach us of grief? In this five-week, generative online workshop, we’ll write across generations, lands & diasporas. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...
Join us online on August 2 for our next Craft Lab: “Demystifying the Volta & Writing Towards Transformation” w/ Omotara James. We’ll explore how to write toward transformation when we are not yet certain what waits on the other side of our own journeys. brooklynpoets.org/events/all/d...
In this six-week, online workshop with Joshua Mehigan, we’ll dive into the technical essentials of English-language versification, learning the patterns of meter and line and exploring the powerful expressive effects they make possible for poets. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/v...
DON'T MISS this six-week, in-person workshop with D.S. Waldman! Explore the myriad ways poems might end and write poems with varying styles of closure. buff.ly/14E7afb
The world can feel overwhelmingly large, long as infinity itself, archive piled upon archive, but poets often contend with this vastness through brevity. In this six-week, online workshop with dawn lonsinger, we'll learn the power of concision. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
Don't miss this two-session, generative online workshop with Maya Salameh. Read poems that speak through cryptids, cyborgs and mythic creatures, and write our own poems that use the monstrous to confront otherness, diaspora and belonging. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/c...
LAST DAY TO REGISTER for this generative five-week, in-person workshop with Kayla Schwab! We'll experiment with classic and contemporary forms such as the sonnet, sestina, and golden shovel. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/c...
Don’t miss your last chance to explore punctuation, brevity, verse, and the bodily in these workshops with Tara Skurtu, grace (ge) gilbert, dawn lonsinger, and Joshua Mehigan that have deadlines this week ⏳ brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
Don't miss this workshop! Punctuation can be a great challenge, and it can make or break a poem. If you find yourself questioning which punctuation marks to use, why to use them, and when and where they go, this in-person, two-session workshop is for you. buff.ly/BoGQ4fi
Don't miss this five-week, generative online workshop with grace (ge) gilbert! Study the poetics of bleeding and find doors into writing our own experiences of gendered and marginalized pain. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/r...
LAST DAY TO REGISTER for this five-week, online workshop with Matthew Gellman! We'll explore the intersection of the narrative and the lyric and try to harness the power of both modes in our poems. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/s...
Don't miss this workshop with Gbenga Adesina: As public griefs collide with private losses, what can the everyday artifacts of our lives teach us of grief? In this five-week, generative online workshop, we’ll write across generations, lands & diasporas. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/a...
In this six-week, online workshop with Joshua Mehigan, we’ll dive into the technical essentials of English-language versification, learning the patterns of meter and line and exploring the powerful expressive effects they make possible for poets. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/v...
Punctuation can be a great challenge, and it can make or break a poem. If you find yourself questioning which punctuation marks to use, why to use them, and when and where they go, this in-person, two-session workshop with Tara Skurtu is for you. buff.ly/BoGQ4fi
DON'T MISS this six-week, in-person workshop with D.S. Waldman! Explore the myriad ways poems might end and write poems with varying styles of closure. buff.ly/14E7afb
LAST DAY to register for his workshop with K. Iver! In this two-session, generative online workshop, we'll explore the power of storytelling in poetry. We’ll explore single poems and narrative arcs of collections to surface a story’s essence. buff.ly/O0RsFlW
Don’t miss your last chance to explore form, narrative, myth, and poetic closure in these workshops with Matthew Gellman, Kayla Schwab, Maya Salameh, and DS Waldman that have deadlines this week ⏳ buff.ly/aWhzgSL
Join us for our next Reading Series on Friday, July 24, featuring poets jason b crawford, Starr Davis & Kyle Carrero Lopez! Free and open to the public at 144 Montague or livestreamed via Zoom. Doors at 6 PM & readings will begin at 7 PM. events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...
LAST CHANCE! In this six-week, online workshop with Angel Nafis, we’ll study the work and world-making praxis of Black women writers and artists through their varied and multitudinous methods. buff.ly/br9wzJZ
The world can feel overwhelmingly large, long as infinity itself, archive piled upon archive, but poets often contend with this vastness through brevity. In this six-week, online workshop with dawn lonsinger, we'll learn the power of concision. buff.ly/eE7VD8F
LAST CHANCE to register for this workshop with Sam Cha! In this six-week, generative in-person workshop, we'll live at the intersection between radical revision and documentary and divinatory poetics. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...