Class Catalog

Instructor: Cass Donish. Grief is love with nowhere to go. Learn to write with it, toward it, and through it—without looking away.

Instructor: Jeanine Walker. This generative workshop builds on craft foundations, examining the rhetoric of contemporary published poets. Students will participate in a supportive workshop where they are creatively encouraged to grow. 

Instructor: Nicole Treska & Nora Lange. Learn to shape your lived experience into fiction or nonfiction stories, with readings, craft lessons, and workshopping to bring your family stories to life.

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Explore spirit beings from various cultural traditions, draw connections between cultures, and use these mythologies to fuel your own writing this two-session generative intensive.  

Instructor: Emma Stockman. You are the hero of your own story, even when it feels like you’re standing still. Use ‘the journey’ as a journaling framework to find meaning and transformation in your own experiences.

Instructor: Daemond Arrindell. History is more than just one story. Use form and disruption to uncover hidden angles and reshape personal and collective narratives.

Instructor: Kaelie Giffel. Ready to publish? This class will guide you through revision, submission strategies, and pitching—so your personal essays find their perfect home.

Instructor: Carolyne Wright. From sonnets to sestinas, discover how poetic forms can spark imagination and elevate your writing. Plus, experiment with inventing some poetic form variations of your own!

Instructor: Holly Day. What makes a poem powerful? In this poetry fundamentals class, experiment with language, rhythm, and form to craft poetry that sings—both on the page and out loud. 

Instructor: Lola Rogers. Explore translation as a form of adaptation: experimenting with voice, style, and context to reimagine stories for new audiences.

Instructor: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. Shape your free verse into its fullest form—experiment, refine, and let your poems reveal their true structure.

Instructor: Claudia Castro Luna. From myth to metaphor, trees and plants root our stories in something deeper and older than ourselves. Over eight weeks, we’ll write, reflect, and create with nature as our guide.

Instructor: Camellia Freeman. Open portals to the past, and play with time, space, memory, myth, and imagination to unearth stories waiting to be told. 

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Step into this millennium-long poetic conversation and create your own work inspired by one of the world’s most lyrical literary traditions.

Instructor: Gabriela Denise Frank. Push the boundaries of your creative limits using the power of constraints! Through hands-on experimentation, we’ll spark unexpected, brilliant ideas and emerge with wild, weird and wonderful writing starts. 

Instructor: Marci Cancio-Bello. Explore poetry’s role in witnessing, processing, and reshaping haunting material in this one-day generative class.

Instructor: Elise McHugh. Mystified by the world of publishing? Learn the publishing options available to you & your manuscript in this three-week publishing intensive. Walk away with a plan to take your manuscript from submission to book deal.

Instructor: Naa Akua. Love is a practice. Through meditation, writing, and discussion, we’ll explore how to bring more love—of self and others—into our creative lives.

Instructor: Tina Tocco. Take the guesswork out of submissions! Learn how to research and submit your short work to literary journals and magazines with confidence. 

Instructor: Susan Nguyen. From joy to rage, grief to desire—AAPI writers are telling powerful stories. Join us to read, discuss, and create writing that resists and reclaims.

Instructor: Deborah Woodard. Let art be your muse as you write poetry and prose in response to exhibits across the city.

Instructor: Meghan Lamb. What happens when the parrot tells the story? Step into the mind of the non-human narrator in this generative craft workshop.

Instructor: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. Who is “you” in a poem? An invitation, an accusation, a mirror? Explore the many possibilities of second-person address in this craft-focused poetry class.

Instructor: Zain Shamoon. This class is dedicated to the role of storytelling in finding relief from distress; students will learn how to use storytelling for personal and communal reclamation.