Class Catalog

Instructor: Sierra Nelson. Over nine months, we’ll deepen our writer-selves by looking to Water for inspiration. Leave with a personal chapbook that pulls together the writing and revisions you’ve generated in class.

Instructor: Mayur Chauhan. Push past the same old, stretch your creative muscles, and get back to the best part of writing: pure play. Experiment with a variety of genres and forms and leave with several drafts of fresh, playful writing. 

Instructor: Leigh Sugar. Whether you're continuing your poetry study and craft, working on a collection, or diving back into your writing, push your creative limits and grow in this supportive workshop cohort. 

Instructor: Miriam Tobin. Write your own full-length play in this yearlong cohort. Through reading, generative writing, and craft discussions, you’ll engage with the playwriting community and learn how to write with performance in mind. 

Instructor: Carolyne Wright. Fallen out of love with your current work in progress? Not sure where to go next with your narrative? Explore strategies to rekindle and sustain the wonder that inspired you to write in the first place. 

Instructor: Bill Carty. Develop a short collection of poems, submit work for publication, and create a long-term writing practice in this nine-month cohort. Leave with 20-30 pages of polished, new work and resources for future poetic endeavors. 

Instructor: Noah Zanella. From Sappho and Shakespeare to Audre Lorde and Bruce Springsteen, we’ll read and discuss love in all its fullness, complexity, and urgency. Then, we’ll learn to write about this emotion. 

This asynchronous course features online workbooks, including ten essential templates in Word and Excel to kickstart your writing life, and resources professional writers use to get published.

Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. Study how contemporary poets help us understand the mundane in new and celebratory ways. Through reading and writing, we’ll learn new ways to surprise and engage our readers, sustain and/or complicate tension, and more. 

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Explore the relationship between the mind-body and technology in this reading and generative writing course: What makes us who we are, when AI is drawing closer to thinking as we do? 

Instructor: Geraldine Woods. Explore creative ways to recognize and communicate sensory details in your writing. You’ll leave with a toolkit to translate sights, sounds, smells, and other tactile information into expressive, captivating language. 

Instructor: Elisabeth Blair. Try a dozen (plus one!) approaches to revise your poems. Leave with 13 revised poems, detailed feedback on each, and a robust revision toolkit for any future poems!

Instructor: Jeanine Walker. Intimidated yet intrigued by poetry? Learn the foundations of poetry in this fun, beginner-friendly course. Read widely, write a lot, and walk away with a solid grasp on poetry basics. 

Instructor: Christie Valentin-Bati. Explore the beautiful and devastating poetry of Annie Dillard, Jericho Brown, Etal Adnan (and more), who write about personal and political catastrophe, then write your own. 

Instructor: Noah Zanella. Grapple with the mysteries of the world in this six-week reading and writing course. Leave with five new pieces infused with wonder and a clearer sense of what matters most to you. 

Instructor: Leigh Sugar. Erasure poetry is equal parts poetry, visual art, and mad lab experimentation. In this generative reading and writing course, we’ll explore the world of erasure in its infinite possibilities. 

Instructor: Grace Bialecki. Plan your perfect writing routine—and actually do it! In this 3-hour, sliding scale class, you’ll develop strategies to cultivate a writing practice and help you finish projects in a way that works for your lifestyle.  

Instructor: Rachel Attias. Stir strangeness and surprise: over six weeks, we’ll practice pushing our writing in weird and wild directions, crafting our own surreal realities. Leave with some truly weird and wonderful writing.

Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. Dive into select poems from Rick Barot's poetry collection, The Galleons. We’ll study how Barot interplays the personal and the political, discuss way he uses craft, & do some writing inspired by his words and strategies. 

Instructor: Kevin O’Rourke. Learn to close-read any text in this reading course for writers. Over six weeks, explore work across various forms and genres, and leave with a toolkit to translate literary knowledge to your own writing.

Instructor: Deborah Woodard. Dive into the work Lord Byron, the Romantic Era’s most flamboyant poet. We’ll read and discuss his major works, then do some writing of our own. Leave with a fresh perspective on Byron and a short portfolio of new work.

Instructor: Aimee Suzara. Read, discuss, & write at the intersections in this generative workshop. We’ll read essays and poems, exploring how identity intersects with experiences of intergenerational mothering, and respond with writing of our own. 

Instructor: Jeanine Walker. Learn to write a great poem in four minutes and explore how to make that poem even better with new approaches to revision. Leave with a sustainable writing practice and 20+ new poems.  

Instructor: Jennifer Perrine (JP). Learn how to curate and collect your poems into a chapbook or book-length manuscript. We’ll identify themes, experiment with sequence and structure, and identify opportunities to further develop your collection.