Guided Poetry Reading Groups

I'm opening registration for my Guided Poetry Reading Groups for May—August.

https://www.seansingerpoetry.com/join-book-club

These are facilitated sessions guiding committed poets and poetry readers in a practice of reading more deeply, creatively, and intentionally. Each month, I’ll guide groups through a close reading of a current book of poetry—books that are overlooked and underrated; books that have something important to tell us about what it is to be alive today.

Groups meet over Zoom once a month for two hours. Outside of meeting times, I’ll support your reading with prompts, guiding questions, and supplementary materials with a special focus on issues of craft.

Together, we’ll develop a deeper understanding of how great poetry is made: reading not just for content (what poets write), but for structure, process and choice (how poets think). Reading this way can help us to think more fearlessly and creatively about the choices we face: in our own writing, and in how we live. There will be two spaces in each group for people who are unable to pay the $200 tuition. I don't want to exclude anyone for financial reasons.

https://www.seansingerpoetry.com/join-book-club

Wednesday evening reading group:
7 PM—9 PM (EST)May 24, June 21, July 26, August 23

Linda Gregg’s All of It Singing (Graywolf, 2011)

Katie Peterson’s A Piece of Good News (FSG, 2018)

Sarah Gambito’s Loves You (Persea, 2019)

Bert Meyers’s On the Life and Work of an American Master (Pleiades Unsung Masters Series, 2023)

Thursday morning reading group:
May 25, June 22, July 27, August 2710 AM—12 PM (EST)

C.D. Wright’s Steal Away (Copper Canyon, 2003)

Lucille Clifton’s The Terrible Stories (BOA, 1996)

Etheridge Knight’s The Essential Etheridge Knight (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1986)

Jennifer L. Knox’s Crushing It (Copper Canyon, 2020)

Sunday morning reading group:
May 21, June 18, July 23, August 611 AM—1 PM (EST)

Leslie Harrison’s Reck (University of Akron Press, 2023)

Ryszard Krynicki’s Our Life Grows (tr. from Polish by Alissa Valles)  (NYRB, 2018)

Lucie Brock-Broido’s Stay, Illusion (Knopf, 2015)

Elise Cowen’s Poems and Fragments (Ahsahta Press, 2014 OUT OF PRINT—I will scan)

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