Reading Groups 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 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.
Sunday Reading Group Winter 2024
4 total classes — 8 hours @ $250.00
11 am- 1 pm
Sept. 22, Oct. 20, Nov. 17, Dec. 15
Tomaž Šalamun, Kiss the Eyes of Peace: Selected Poems 1964-2014 (Milkweed, 2024)
Sarah Vap, Winter: Effulgences and Devotions (Noemi Press, 2019)
Lynda Hull, Star Ledger (Univ. of Iowa Press, 1990)
Reginald Shepherd, Selected (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
Wednesday Reading Group Winter 2024
4 total classes — 8 hours @ $250.00
Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 20, Dec. 18
7-9 PM (EST)
Robyn Schiff, Information Desk (Penguin, 2023)
Tadeusz Różewicz, Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems (Norton, 2013)
Jane Mead, Money Money Money Water Water Water: A Trilogy (Alice James, 2014)
Ama Codjoe, Bluest Nude (Milkweed, 2022)
Thursday Reading Group Winter 2024
4 total classes — 8 hours @ $250.00
10 am-12 pm
Sept. 26, Oct, 24, Nov, 21, Dec. 19
Natalie Shapero, Popular Longing (Copper Canyon, 2021)
Amy Gerstler, Index of Women (Penguin, 2021)
Ted Mathys, Null Set (Coffee House, 2015)
Weldon Kees, Collected Poems (Bison Books, 2003)