24PearlStreet Upcoming Workshops and Events
Craig Morgan Teicher
Sonnet Days
July 29 to August 2, 2024
Price: $550
ASYNCHONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS: Sonnets are like those mysterious architectural structures that are miraculously vaster on the inside than the view from outside could possibly promise. The sonnet, a poem of 14 lines and allegiance to a long tradition, is a podium from which to launch an argument, a clearing beneath the beloved’s balcony, a... more
Sonnet Days
July 29 to August 2, 2024
Price: $550
ASYNCHONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS: Sonnets are like those mysterious architectural structures that are miraculously vaster on the inside than the view from outside could possibly promise. The sonnet, a poem of 14 lines and allegiance to a long tradition, is a podium from which to launch an argument, a clearing beneath the beloved’s balcony, a... more
Melissa Studdard
Your Own Fire: Writing the Poems That Only You Can Write
July 29 to August 2, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 8:30pm-10:30pm (Eastern Time) You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it. ― Audre Lorde The poems and poets we love most are often unfettered, unique, and unabashedly themselves. But... more
Your Own Fire: Writing the Poems That Only You Can Write
July 29 to August 2, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 8:30pm-10:30pm (Eastern Time) You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it. ― Audre Lorde The poems and poets we love most are often unfettered, unique, and unabashedly themselves. But... more
Keetje Kuipers
Sprint Workshop with Keetje Kuipers - LIVE
August 6, 2024
Price: $225
“O let me, please”: How (& Why) to Write the Sexiest Poems of Your Life — LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-9pm (Eastern Time) on August 6th — Reflecting on the writing of sex, Melissa Febos says, “When something seems difficult, in writing and in life, we tend to make rules around it.” And just as there... more
Sprint Workshop with Keetje Kuipers - LIVE
August 6, 2024
Price: $225
“O let me, please”: How (& Why) to Write the Sexiest Poems of Your Life — LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-9pm (Eastern Time) on August 6th — Reflecting on the writing of sex, Melissa Febos says, “When something seems difficult, in writing and in life, we tend to make rules around it.” And just as there... more
Sean Singer
Line-by-Line
October 14 to November 8, 2024
Price: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS I will guide students in a close reading of 4 existing poem drafts—giving careful attention to line-by-line edits. Students will generate one new poem a week based on a prompt inspired by the workshop work. Close, creative reading will bring the most meaning and most beauty to your poems in progress. I will supply... more
Line-by-Line
October 14 to November 8, 2024
Price: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS I will guide students in a close reading of 4 existing poem drafts—giving careful attention to line-by-line edits. Students will generate one new poem a week based on a prompt inspired by the workshop work. Close, creative reading will bring the most meaning and most beauty to your poems in progress. I will supply... more
Aiera D. Matthews
The Visual Poem - LIVE
October 28 to November 1, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am-12pm (Eastern Time) We cannot escape the fact that we live in a visual culture. As culture shifts, so do the possibilities of poetry. In this generative poetry workshop we will come to understand the importance of poetic architecture—the deployment of space relative to the foundations of poetry. We will investigate how... more
The Visual Poem - LIVE
October 28 to November 1, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am-12pm (Eastern Time) We cannot escape the fact that we live in a visual culture. As culture shifts, so do the possibilities of poetry. In this generative poetry workshop we will come to understand the importance of poetic architecture—the deployment of space relative to the foundations of poetry. We will investigate how... more
Daisy Fried
Writing the Political Poem
November 4 to November 8, 2024
Price: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS What makes a poem political? What makes a political poem good? Is it harder or easier, at this moment in history, to write political poetry, compared with other kinds of poetry? Can poems change anything in the world? What are political poems for? This workshop aims to help you find formats... more
Writing the Political Poem
November 4 to November 8, 2024
Price: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS What makes a poem political? What makes a political poem good? Is it harder or easier, at this moment in history, to write political poetry, compared with other kinds of poetry? Can poems change anything in the world? What are political poems for? This workshop aims to help you find formats... more
Jennifer Franklin
The American Sonnet: Writing Small Poems That Pack a Big Punch - LIVE
November 18 to November 22, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern Time) In this class, we will read, study, and discuss the craft elements of American sonnets—less structured, more musical, and innovative than traditional Shakespearean or Petrarchan sonnets. We will consider examples by Wanda Coleman, Claude McKay, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, Patricia Smith, A.E. Stallings, Lucille Clifton, Terrance Hayes, Ada Limón,... more
The American Sonnet: Writing Small Poems That Pack a Big Punch - LIVE
November 18 to November 22, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern Time) In this class, we will read, study, and discuss the craft elements of American sonnets—less structured, more musical, and innovative than traditional Shakespearean or Petrarchan sonnets. We will consider examples by Wanda Coleman, Claude McKay, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, Patricia Smith, A.E. Stallings, Lucille Clifton, Terrance Hayes, Ada Limón,... more
Tyler Mills
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
November 18 to December 13, 2024
Price: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your poems and re-enter them with fresh eyes so that you can prepare them for publication this year. We will look at the revision process of poets like Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth... more
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
November 18 to December 13, 2024
Price: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your poems and re-enter them with fresh eyes so that you can prepare them for publication this year. We will look at the revision process of poets like Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth... more
Martha Collins
Beyond I Love You: Sentence & Line - LIVE
December 2 to December 6, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 4pm-6pm (Eastern Time) Through the reading of published poems and daily writing prompts, this workshop will explore syntactic strategies for getting beyond the predictable subject-verb-object sentence (“I love you”), and in the process explore ways in which syntax and prosody—sentence and line—work together to create complex poetic textures. You should leave the... more
Beyond I Love You: Sentence & Line - LIVE
December 2 to December 6, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 4pm-6pm (Eastern Time) Through the reading of published poems and daily writing prompts, this workshop will explore syntactic strategies for getting beyond the predictable subject-verb-object sentence (“I love you”), and in the process explore ways in which syntax and prosody—sentence and line—work together to create complex poetic textures. You should leave the... more
Nathan McClain
To Click or Not to Click: on How to Close a Poem - LIVE
December 9 to December 13, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 3-5pm (Eastern Time) What does it mean for a poem to have “earned” its ending? And how do we craft poems that are both memorable and reward re-reading? In this workshop, we will address these questions, as well as discuss poetic structure, counterpoise, and identify strategies for crafting surprising, yet seemingly inevitable,... more
To Click or Not to Click: on How to Close a Poem - LIVE
December 9 to December 13, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 3-5pm (Eastern Time) What does it mean for a poem to have “earned” its ending? And how do we craft poems that are both memorable and reward re-reading? In this workshop, we will address these questions, as well as discuss poetic structure, counterpoise, and identify strategies for crafting surprising, yet seemingly inevitable,... more
