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.