Welcome to the Poetry Kitchen, a home for poets and readers who are searching for thoughtful conversation and deep writing time. Every year I offer a variety of generative, revision, and manuscript classes aimed at developing participants' confidence and independence within a supportive community of fellow makers. Classes are affordable and are open to all.
The following class is now open for registration. Stay tuned for more in the spring.
Poems of Defiance, Poems of Love: Making New Work in Hard Times
NEW CLASS!
Dawn Potter, instructor
We’re living in chaotic times, and despair often feels like the only option. But this is our world, and we have to navigate it. So how can we step into, away from, around, and through that morass of dread to enter honestly, imaginatively, unexpectedly into the work of making new poems?
In this generative class, we’ll spend time with writings by Anna Akhmatova, James Baldwin, Zbigniew Herbert, Audre Lorde, and others, studying how they were able to build rich new work in times of terror and sorrow. Then we’ll try out some of what we’ve learned in our own new drafts.
Dates: April 19, 2025, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. ET, on Zoom SESSION FULL; WAIT LIST ONLY
May 3, 2025, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. ET, on Zoom NEW SESSION; REGISTER HERE!
Cost: $75
Class size is limited to 12 participants.
Inservice teachers will receive 5 hours of professional development credit.
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