Saturdays, February 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2026, 10:00AM - 12:00PM

Meetings will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. SOLD OUT.

A well-chosen moment can hold everything – emotion, meaning, resonance. —Esme Wang. In this generative workshop, we’ll take on various approaches to the evolving form of micro memoir. Part prose poem, part self-portraiture, part memoir, this genre takes on the construction of the self in fragments against the backdrop of space and time. We'll read works and explore various approaches by Lia Purpura, Richard Siken, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Karen Brennan, and Loisa Fenicell, among others. Expect to write from and out of the shimmering objects of childhood (these, as poet Derek Mahon describes, "hold entire worlds") and the indelible moments of personal story, which we’ll render and tiny and jewel-like on a revolving stage of compression and elision. Come ready to experiment and imagine. Materials provided.