Poetry
February 8-12, 2027
Tiered Tuition
$150-$400 Reserve My Spot
About the Offering
February 8th-12th at 4pm to 6pm (Eastern Time)
In this one-week class, we will read, discuss, and respond to the work and craft of Louise Gluck, Lucille Clifton, and Lucie Brock-Broido—three late giants of American lyric poetry.
Together, these three astonishing poets published thirty collections of poetry, praised by some of the most important critics of the 20th and 21st centuries. Among their many awards and honors, Gluck won the Nobel Prize, Clifton won the National Book Award and the Robert Frost Medal, Brock-Broido won the Guggenheim and two grants from the National Endowment of the Arts. Each of them shared the work of Emily Dickinson as a profound influence. Yet their voices are utterly distinct, making their poetry ampong the most anthologized of their time. All three have mentored countless writers in their decades teaching craft to emerging poets.
Please join me as we read a carefully curated selection of the work of Gluck, Clifton, and Brock-Broido, two of whom were my own mentors. Each day we will spend an hour reading and discussing a selection of poems and an hour writing responding to three prompts to generate fifteen poems in conversation with these miraculous poets by the end of the week.
About the Instructor/Moderator
Jennifer Franklin
is a poet, professor, and editor. She is the author of four poetry collections including A Fire in Her Brain, chosen by Rowan Ricardo Phillips for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets (Princeton University Press, January 2027), named one of the most anticipated poetry books of the year by LitHub, and of the fall season by Publishers Weekly and Associated Press. Recent work has been published in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, “poem-a-day” on poets.org, and Prairie Schooner. She is the recipient of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and residencies from Hawthornden Castle in Scotland and the T.S. Eliot House in Gloucester, MA. She teaches in Manhattanville's MFA program and her own deep revision manuscript workshops.
