Virtual Classes

Past Classes

PAST EVENT

Rumi on Death

with Haleh Liza Gafori

In this seminar, we’ll read and discuss poems in which Rumi addresses mortality, immortality, and the afterlife as well as poems exploring the Sufi concept of fana

PAST EVENT

The Business of Poetry and Standing on Business

with Mahogany l. browne

Discover how to navigate the world of literature and have several streams of income without compromising your artistic integrity.

PAST EVENT

Let Me Give You the Zeit: On a Poetics of the Third Space

with SAFIA ELHILLO

A poetics of the third space is a hybrid poetry that expresses the fluidity and tension of identity. What does it mean to write a migrant experience, an experience of two cultural identities imposed on one another?

PAST EVENT

The Ugliest Body, the Most Beautiful Body: A Workshop on Worshipping the Form

with Keetje Kuipers

During this class, participants can expect to begin several new poems and, ultimately, walk away with a new vision for how to write the physical form with compassion and forgiveness.

PAST EVENT

Reimagining the Prose Poem: 
A Generative Workshop

with Chen chen

In this generative workshop, we’ll discuss and experiment with a variety of daring approaches that writers today are taking toward the prose poem.

PAST EVENT

Teach This Poem: A Workshop for Educators

with richard blanco

This virtual workshop consisting of two Zoom sessions is meant to empower educators with easier and more effective ways to bring poetry and art into the classroom.

PAST EVENT

Strange Stories of the Bible: II

with PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA

Following on from last year’s exploration of Noah, Mary, Ruth and others, Pádraig Ó Tuama returns in November 2024 with more Strange Stories of the Bible.

PAST EVENT

Strange Stories of the Bible

with PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA

Pádraig Ó Tuama explores biblical stories and symbolism through a spiritual and secular lens.