Poets House welcomes five poets from the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa for an evening of readings and conversation. This event explores various cultural spaces that poetry occupies, internationally and domestically. Director of the International Writing Program, Christopher …
Although writers wrestle with how to end a poem as much as they fret over how to get started, in this class we will discuss how the ending of a poem is often revealed along the way. We will talk …
Ander Monson, author of Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries (2015), leads a generative trawl through the 60,000-volume library at Poets House. Through encounters with unexpected materials found between the pages, library-nauts will …
Although writers wrestle with how to end a poem as much as they fret over how to get started, in this class we will discuss how the ending of a poem is often revealed along the way. We will talk …
An afternoon spent in silence? A-Z? The cosmic order of Borges' library of the imagination? Whatever the duration, extent, or dimensions of your perfect library, this day-long symposium will delight and inform as it winds through the many roles libraries …
Myths of African, Asian, Greek, and Roman origin are embedded in World literature, not only as metaphor and moral, but as a measure of humanity’s intrinsic faults or heroism. This workshop will explore timeless myths as a means to discuss …
Are you fascinated by Monarch butterflies? Dark matter? Funiculars? Politics? Medieval art? How do you go about translating that passionate interest onto the page? In this workshop, we will explore how other poets have plumbed their passions—Maggie Nelson in Bluets, Sawako …
Throughout the millennia, poets have been inspired by the visual arts as a way into reading the self and soul. This workshop will explore figuration's of the soul through our numinous encounters with the visual. How can we create a …
In this class, each writer will select a classic text to adapt and transform over the course of the six weeks, while engaging with poems based on precursor texts, and the precursors that provoked them. How can writing be a …
Drop in during the day to listen to classic spooky poetry, make a monster mask, and write a spell or incantation on ‘ancient’ paper.