Poetry
January 10-11, 2026
Tiered Tuition
$150-$400 Reserve My Spot
January 10th & 11th at 12pm-3pm (Eastern)
How can we explore movement, motion, memory, and the mind’s journeys in our poems? Let’s stretch, let’s yawn, let’s dream, and let’s move!
In this generative poetry workshop, we’ll investigate and think about the ways motion can manifest in a poem: in an image, in an action, in a flashback or flash forward, and in the imagination. We’ll hold space for urgency and quiet, making and reflection, welcoming process as messy, fun, and transformational. We’ll write poems using prompts each day, explore short readings by other poets (like Natalie Diaz, Shara McCallum, Rick Barot, and Traci Brimhall), and respond to each other’s work in ways that uplift the speaker, and the poet.
Each day will include time for reading, writing, sharing, and peer feedback (optional) as well as feedback from me. After our time together, you’ll have four new drafts that engage with movement.
Anyone is welcome in this workshop! Poets brand new to poetry workshops as well as poets working on expanding a manuscript are welcome.
Tyler Mills is a poet, essayist, and educator. Her most recent poetry books are the poetry guidebook Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets (University of Akron Press 2024) for new and experienced poets and City Scattered (Tupelo Press 2022). She is also the author of the memoir The Bomb Cloud (Unbound Edition Press 2024), which received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, the Kenyon Review, The Believer, and Poetry. Her essays have appeared in AGNI, Brevity, Lit Hub, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She has served as a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and has been awarded residencies from Yaddo, Ragdale, and the Bethany Arts Community. She is also the author of the poetry books Hawk Parable (University of Akron Press 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press 2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions 2021). Empathy, rigorous questions, and embracing process are central to her approach to poetry and art making. She teaches for the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.
