Poetry
July 14 to August 4, 2026
Tiered Tuition
$250-$600 Reserve My Spot
Tuesdays on July 14th, 21st, 28th and August 4th at 6pm-8pm (Eastern)
Robert Frost said, “writing free verse is like playing hand ball with no wall, or like playing tennis without a net.” Let’s figure out what he means.
In this generative workshop, students will explore four poetic forms frequently used in English—the sonnet, the villanelle, the pantoum, and terza rima. Beginning with an intro lesson/seminar/discussion the first week, the class will proceed through weekly workshops, one per form. If you’ve never written in form or rhyme before, fear not: these forms are flexible and adaptable, as we shall see.
Craig Morgan Teicher's new collection of poems, August, September, October, is out from BOA in the Spring of 2026. He's also the author of four additional books of poems: Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey (BOA, 2021), which won the Paterson Poetry Prize; The Trembling Answers (BOA, 2017), which won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, 2012); and Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, (CLP, 2007), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He also wrote Cradle Book: Stories and Fables (BOA, 2010) and the chapbook Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, 2014). His collection of essays, We Begin in Gladness: How Poets Progress, was published by Graywolf in 2018. Craig is a 2021 recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and he writes about books for many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The LA Times, and NPR.
