Reading Groups!

Reading Groups are facilitated sessions guiding committed poets and poetry readers in a practice of reading more deeply, creatively, and intentionally. Each month, I 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.

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Groups meet 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. 

Groups meet once a month for two hours. The fee includes four monthly meetings supported between sessions by prompts, guiding questions, and supplementary materials.

Wednesday Evening Reading Group Spring 2024

8 hours @ $250.00

May 29, June 26, July 24, August 7
7 PM—9 PM (EST)

Primus St. John, Communion (Copper Canyon, 1999)
Margaret Ray, Good Grief, The Ground (BOA, 2023)
Laura Kasischke, Space, In Chains (Copper Canyon, 2011)
Jill Osier, The Solace is Not the Lullaby (Yale, 2020)

Sunday Reading Group Spring 2024

8 hours @ $250.00

11 AM- 1 PM
May 26, June 23, July 21, August 4

Alan Dugan, Poems Seven (Seven Stories, 2001)
Robert Lax, 33 Poems (City Lights, 2019)
Robyn Schiff, Information Desk (Penguin, 2023)
Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems (David R. Godine, 2020)

Thursday Reading Group Spring 2024

8 hours @ $250.00

10 AM-12 PM
May 30, June 27, July 25, August 8

Gregory Pardlo, Spectral Evidence (Knopf, 2024)
Juliana Spahr, Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You (Wesleyan, 2001)
Andrea Cohen, The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way, 2024)
Patricia Spears Jones, The Beloved Community (Copper Canyon, 2023)

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There are plenty of generative workshops or workshops focussed on revision, but this is a no-pressure, non-competitive environment to talk about challenging poetry books with simpatico people.