24PearlStreet Upcoming Workshops
Dorianne Laux
Finger Exercises for Poets: the Discrete Line – LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) The will of the line, the carefulness of it, the pleasure, the choices and options, the decision. The separate-ness of it, the distinctness, the isolation and detachedness of it. The finite line. Unconnected from all other lines, it has a life of its own, can move backwards or forwards in... more
Finger Exercises for Poets: the Discrete Line – LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) The will of the line, the carefulness of it, the pleasure, the choices and options, the decision. The separate-ness of it, the distinctness, the isolation and detachedness of it. The finite line. Unconnected from all other lines, it has a life of its own, can move backwards or forwards in... more
Carl Phillips
Pattern & Surprise: a Generative Workshop - LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern Time) For this workshop, we will look at poems that I’ll provide and use them as models for how poems are made from creating pattern and from unexpectedly interrupting that pattern. Each model will be the basis of a daily prompt, which will be the starting point for a new... more
Pattern & Surprise: a Generative Workshop - LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern Time) For this workshop, we will look at poems that I’ll provide and use them as models for how poems are made from creating pattern and from unexpectedly interrupting that pattern. Each model will be the basis of a daily prompt, which will be the starting point for a new... more
Ruben Quesada
Writing Through the Silence: Reclaiming Your Voice After a Creative Block
March 3 to March 7, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Creative lulls can be frustrating, but they are also opportunities for reinvention. This course is designed for writers emerging from periods of silence—whether caused by creative burnout, personal challenges, or a busy life. Through reflective exercises, students will explore writing prompts to reconnect them with their creative core. Writers will... more
Writing Through the Silence: Reclaiming Your Voice After a Creative Block
March 3 to March 7, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Creative lulls can be frustrating, but they are also opportunities for reinvention. This course is designed for writers emerging from periods of silence—whether caused by creative burnout, personal challenges, or a busy life. Through reflective exercises, students will explore writing prompts to reconnect them with their creative core. Writers will... more
Melissa Febos
The Art of Navel Gazing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE
March 15, 2025
Price: $150
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) — Do you suspect the most urgent story you have to tell is your own, but fear that writing a memoir is too vulnerable an undertaking? Do you fear being thought unserious or self-indulgent? Too often we take for granted the false binary between the personal and the intellectual. A... more
The Art of Navel Gazing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE
March 15, 2025
Price: $150
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) — Do you suspect the most urgent story you have to tell is your own, but fear that writing a memoir is too vulnerable an undertaking? Do you fear being thought unserious or self-indulgent? Too often we take for granted the false binary between the personal and the intellectual. A... more
Kristina Marie Darling
The Fine Art of Book Publicity - LIVE
March 17 to March 21, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 11am-1pm (Eastern Time) Kristina Marie Darling, editor-in-cheif of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, will walk students through the basics of book publicity for poetry collections, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid genre books, and chapbooks. Students will discuss strategies for researching and building relationships with book reviewers, best practices for supporting and mentoring reviewers,... more
The Fine Art of Book Publicity - LIVE
March 17 to March 21, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 11am-1pm (Eastern Time) Kristina Marie Darling, editor-in-cheif of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, will walk students through the basics of book publicity for poetry collections, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid genre books, and chapbooks. Students will discuss strategies for researching and building relationships with book reviewers, best practices for supporting and mentoring reviewers,... more
Elissa Altman
Do I Have the Right to Tell My Story? — LIVE
April 26, 2025
Price: $225
LIVE via ZOOM: 12-3pm (Eastern) on April 26th — Does fear of public or private response to your story hobble your ability to write it with clarity? Join Elissa Altman in a three-hour seminar on giving oneself permission to transcend the fear that keeps vital stories from being written. Participants will learn how to short-circuit... more
Do I Have the Right to Tell My Story? — LIVE
April 26, 2025
Price: $225
LIVE via ZOOM: 12-3pm (Eastern) on April 26th — Does fear of public or private response to your story hobble your ability to write it with clarity? Join Elissa Altman in a three-hour seminar on giving oneself permission to transcend the fear that keeps vital stories from being written. Participants will learn how to short-circuit... more
