2025 Summer Workshop Program
Our Tiered Tuition System asks you to choose one of the following tuition levels:
$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
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We create our poetry using materials both physical and experiential: memory–everything we remember & even what we forget–is our treasure trove of writing material, and “getting it down on paper” is the poet’s mysterious exploratory process. Writing by hand, on paper, in class, solo-with-others, is a way to practice creative flow, finding where poems come from. This workshop will include workshopping & generative sessions each day.
Students should bring poems for in-class workshop feedback, blank notebook/sketchbook, and writing instruments. The instructor will also provide writing and reading materials.
Biography
Brenda Shaughnessy
is an Okinawan-Irish American poet whose books include Tanya (2023), The Octopus Museum (2019), and the forthcoming Sensorium Ex (Knopf 2026), a poetry adaptation of the opera libretto she wrote/created in collaboration with the composer Paola Prestini. The opera Sensorium Ex premieres in 2025. Her other books include Our Andromeda, Human Dark with Sugar, and Interior with Sudden Joy. A recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the James Laughlin Award, she lives in West Orange, New Jersey.
