Welcome to The Poetry Kitchen, an online collective offering poetry workshops and gatherings that emphasize creative rigor and communal support.
Founded by Dawn Potter, Teresa Carson, and Maudelle Driskell, The Poetry Kitchen designs classes and events that draw on the instructors’ long experience as poets, editors, collaborators, and teachers.
Generative sessions bring participants into deep engagement with the work of poets across time and place, using them as models for new writing. Manuscript sessions help participants discover fresh entry points into their in-progress poems and collections. Readings and conversations bring poets together to consider and extend the interplay between creation and audience.
Participants arrive at The Poetry Kitchen with varying levels of experience and confidence, but all are invited into this collegial space.
We've got a website under construction, but for now this will be our temporary headquarters. The following two classes are now open for registration:
Song and Structure: An Introductory Chapbook Seminar
CLASS IS FULL!
In 1958, the great singer, songwriter, and pianist Nina Simone released her first album, Little Girl Blue, a gorgeous collection that reveals her debts to both classical music and jazz and hints at the unique and idiosyncratic style she would hone in the coming decades.
How can poets learn from a musician’s approach to creating an album? In this three-session seminar we will consider some first steps in organizing a sheaf of poems. Using Simone’s debut album as our touchstone, we’ll consider how our individual poems can work together to create a web of themes, and we’ll experiment with ways to create dramatic movement and variety within those themes. Our goal will be to develop an architecture that you can use as a foundation for constructing a manuscript.
The seminar will meet on three consecutive Sunday afternoons, and participants will also share feedback about each other’s work between sessions.
Dates: May 5, 12, and 19, 1-4 p.m. ET, on Zoom
Cost: $200
Class size is limited to 6 participants. Be prepared to bring 10 one-page poems to this seminar. You will also need to have access to Nina Simone’s album Little Girl Blue, which is available on Spotify or can be purchased in hard copy.
Inservice teachers will receive 9 hours of professional development credit.
From Draft to Dream: Revising into the Unknown
CLASS IS FULL!
Maybe you've got a notebook full of first drafts that you can't bring yourself to touch. Maybe you're looking for a way to bring your existing writing into new territory. Maybe you struggle to trust your own judgment about revision choices.
This day-long class is for anyone who is looking for new ways to step into existing poems. Via prompts, readings, and conversations, we'll experiment with structure, language, narrative, voice, and other elements of poem construction. At the end of the day you'll have a sheaf of new revisions and a toolbox of ideas to put to use in your writing practice.
Date: June 2, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., on Zoom
Cost: $75
Class size is limited to 12 participants.
Inservice teachers will receive 5 hours of professional development credit.
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