let’s write poetry saturdays
Join in-person historically-grounded poetry workshops. First Saturdays of each month.
04.05 — Crossroads: Strategies for Revising Poetry
About the series
2024 — Present / 2 Seasons 12 Sessions
These one-hour collective experiences explore various poetic forms and supports writers with their revision practice beyond the wide-recognized workshop style. These workshops are taught for free or at a significant discount to make poetry in higher education more accessible. Please consider gifting a workshop to a friend!
Open to all, participants have shared that these workshops are great for writers who are desiring a residency environment, prepping for a graduate program, are continuing to write between a graduate and doctoral degree, or prefers a rigorous literary environment outside of academia. People who also less familiar with poetry engage and write alongside more advance writers with ease.
Get to know our previous poetry sessions:
2024
Zuihitsu
a classic Japanese genre
Write and learn the history of the Zuihitsu, a classic Japanese genre defined by a fragmented series of single-line essays.
Décima
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Learn to write the Décima, an oral Black Ecuadorian poetic form comprising 44-lines. This is separate from the European décima (Espinel), lowercase "d".
Flamenca
a genre based on the Flamenco
Write and dance to the Flamenca, a cinquian (or a five-line stanza) with defined assonant and syllabic structures.
Eintou
a West African and African American poetic form
This form mirrors the shape of a pearl or an eintou.
Bop
a poetic form developed by poet Afaa Michael Weaver.
This form also presents a progression. The first stanza presents the poem’s dilemma, the second is an expansion upon it and the third offers a resolve.
Broadside
an art print with text and images
Participants receive printmaking paper, stencils, stamps, and a typewriter to create a broadside.
Contrapuntal
think like a curator
The contrapuntal is a poetic form blending two or more poems to be read in multiple ways.
Assemblage
learn more strategies to vary one’s own syntax
Create sound sculptures inspired by the structure of graphs, charts and other visual forms.
2025
A True Revolution
special edition to honor Nikki Giovanni
Learn about the literary legacy of globally-renowned literary legend, poet Nikki Giovanni.
Screenplays Inspiring Poetry
how can film inspire lyric?
Read a series of scenes from different screenplays and strengthen your poetic voice.
Lucille Clifton through a Desert Lens
Reading in the Sonoran Desert
Read and listen to Clifton's works in conversation with the desert.
Crossroads
Strategies for Revising Poetry
We will explore how revising can be rejuvenating. Create, develop, and share techniques.