Poetry
September 22-26, 2025
Tiered Tuition
$250-$600 Reserve My Spot
September 22th-26th from 7pm-9 pm (Eastern).
What does the world need now—and how can our poems respond? In this generative workshop, we’ll explore how poetry can offer care, clarity, and connection in uncertain times. Through daily writing prompts, short readings, and guided craft discussions, participants will create new work that draws on memory, observation, and imagination. Together, we’ll read contemporary poets who write with urgency and tenderness, and we’ll practice writing that risks vulnerability and speaks to the present moment. Each session will include time for drafting, sharing, and optional peer feedback, all in a supportive, creative space.
This workshop is open to poets at any stage who are ready to engage more deeply with their work and the world around them.
January Gill O'Neil
is a professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. Glitter Road won the 2024 Poetry by the Sea Best Book Award and the Julia Ward Howe Prize in poetry from the Boston Authors Club; was a finalist for the New England Book Award, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and the Julie Suk Award; and is finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award. From 2012 to 2018, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Sierra, and more. Her poem “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial” won a 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O’Neil was the 2019–2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, and chairs the AWP Board of Directors (2022–2025).
