Untitled: A Poetry Journey

Second & Fourth Mondays
January 8-December 23, 2024
1-3 PM (ET)

Limited to 10 (2 seats remain)

This year-long poetry journey will guide you through everything you need to know in order to feel more comfortable and confident about reading and writing poetry. Not everyone’s end-point is a book. Sometimes, you just want to learn the craft without the pressure of publishing, let alone producing a body of work that converses and coalesces. You want a solid grounding in the basics, not a lengthy and expensive MFA program. 

Each leg of the journey will include ad-hoc readings, exercises, and prompts that will accrue over time to provide you with a deepened connection to, and understanding of, poetry. The more you participate, the more you will benefit. We will give each other a passport to go wherever the muse beckons, on a quest for poems that inspire, soothe, surprise, amuse, and yes, even sometimes confuse us.

This trip is not meant to be yet another task in our over-scheduled lives, but a respite from same—a holding space for our poet-selves to reset and be replenished. I recommend on-boarding for at least a month, but there’s a weekly option if you would prefer to begin your journey, as Lao Tzu said, with “a single step.”

Our cohort will communicate in-between meetings in an online password-protected space that is easy to use. Traditional critiques are not part of this journey, but we will trade process-notes, free-writes, struggles, breakthroughs and, of course, poems. Think of these sharing sessions more as conversations than critiques. Think of the year-long journey as an alternative, and much more affordable, MFA.

Suitable for voyagers from virgin to seasoned, I warmly invite you to explore the outer banks of poetic possibility with me. Whether you sign up for a week, a month, or the entire year, I can’t wait to travel with you!

Note: We will meet in-person at The Poetry Barn, weather-permitting. We may occasionally meet on Zoom.