THE POEM WITHIN
Summer 2023

In this four-week online poetry workshop, students wrote poems that activated memory and personal archives with techniques from the repertory of song, ritual, and research.

POETRY OF THE SPIRIT
Spring 2023

This three-week online poetry traced the roots of lyrical poetry and its connection with worship, song, spiritual and hermetic practice, and the collective.

POEMS ARE CLOUDS: WRITING BUILT AND NATURAL FORMS
Fall 2022

This five-week online workshop examined poetry’s parallels to nature and architecture, drawing inspiration from both the unscripted chaos of the natural world and principles of design.

LYRICAL COMMONS: POEMBODIES
Summer 2022 & Spring 2021

This five-week online workshop explored the textual and sonic body of the poem, its homes in the breath and ear, and its relationship with song and communal speech.

POETRY & THE CITY: WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF
Spring 2020

This five-week online workshop explored New York through the eye of the poet immersed in the city’s refracting poetic legacies, within the changing urban landscape that shaped them.

POETRY BY DESIGN: STRUCTURE AND PLAY
Spring 2019

This five-week workshop played with the building blocks of poetry and launched an investigation into the poem’s materiality, the way its structure interprets natural and built forms, patterns and textures, and wavers between the grounded and the immaterial.

LIGHTS WORDS ACTION! POETRY & CINEMA
Spring 2018

This five-week workshop explored the history of the poetic image as a synesthetic moment, the activation of all the senses, along with the evolution of cinema: from Imagism and French New Wave to Instagram poetry and digital video art.

ALL ALONE TOGETHER: POETRY IN SOLITUDE & COLLABORATION
Fall 2017

In this five-week workshop we wrote together into a poetics of solitude: its life in literature, in books and on screens, and what’s behind the screens—the materiality of being alone (sometimes in a crowd), the economies, secrets and reveals of a solitary practice.

POEMS ARE A RIVER: WRITING BUILT AND NATURAL FORM
Fall 2019

This one-day workshop explored Woodland Pattern’s home neighborhood of Riverwest in Milwaukee, WI, playing with space on a poetic walk from A to B to the nearby Gordon Park where we spoke (in poetry) to its sculptures, structures—and the river.

POETIC IMAGE FOR THE PEOPLE
Spring 2016

THE POETIC ACT
Spring 2015

THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST THE IMAGINATION
Fall 2014

TOTAL LYRIC: POETRY OF THE PRESENT
Fall 2015

THE LINES OF OTHERS: ON POETIC PERFORMANCE
Spring 2014