COURSE ARCHIVE
Please browse the descriptions of courses we have offered in past seasons. Recent seasons include:
SUMMER 2024
- What’s a Book, Anyway? with Charles Alexander
- Writing Tucson: Intersecting Place, Prose and Poetry with Estella González
- The Technology of Surprise: Haiku, Haibun, and collaborative poetry play with Dana Levin
SPRING 2024
- Writing With Fire: Finding Form in a Burning World with Gretchen E. Henderson
- Only My Voice, Like A Flute: A Poetry Workshop on Grief (and Praise!) with Edgar Kunz
- An Ecopoetics Sampler Course with Brenda Hillman
- Very Friendly Lighthouses, or How to Continue with Matthew Zapruder
- The Art of the Remix: A Crash Course in Radical Revision with John Murillo
- Staying Outside: Strategies in Honor of "Difficult" Work with Saretta Morgan
- Scores for the Desert Future with Kimi Eisele
fall 2023
- The Seductions of Voice with Paisley Rekdal.
- Poetry and the Unconscious with Yanyi
- Stop Making Sense with Timothy Donnelly
- Everyone's Poetry Workshop with Eileen Myles
- Writing with Water: Finding Form in a Thirsty World with Gretchen E. Henderson
- Ecstatic Miniatures: A Generative Workshop Exploring the Delights of Writing Short Verse Plays with Manuel Paul López
- Different Vessels, Different Meanings: Shaping Poetry Through Shape with Adam O. Davis
- Whitman's Long-Line Verse: An Appreciation with Marilyn Chin
- Locating the Self: Intertextual Poetic Strategies with Charif Shanahan
SUMMER 2023
- The Art of the Poetry Chapbook with Brooke Sahni
- Prose Poems and the Art of Disguise with Justin Petropoulos
- Radical Intimacies: Attempts & Experiments of Many Starts with Angel Dominguez
SPRING 2023
- Deep Listening & Sounding with Roberto Tejada
- Documentary Poetics v. American History: Beyond Critical Race Theory to See Reality with Tyehimba Jess
- Arranging a Manuscript with Joan Larkin
- Tangling with Humanity, Earth & The Universe with Juan Felipe Herrera
- Seeing is Believing: Drafting the Lasting Image with Nicole Sealey
- Some Varieties of Poetic Experience with Jane Hirshfield
- THROUGH THE ASH, NEW LEAVES…LYRIC POETRY FORMS ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE CRISIS with Pam Uschuk
FALL 2022
- Ecopoetics: A Writer's Way of Knowledge with Lorna Dee Cervantes
- Political Lyric with Aria Aber
- The Poetics of the Future with Shayla Lawz
- Refuse to be Done: Rewriting and Revision at Every Stage with Matt Bell.
- Gained in Translation: Sandra Cisneros and Liliana Valenzuela on the useful joys of translation for poets and translators
- Learning from Whitman with Mark Doty
SUMMER 2022
- Free Time: Building a Community of Mentors for Incarcerated Writers with Joe Watson
- A Borderless Poetic with Anthony Cody
- Lush Desert: Writing Contradiction, Juxtaposition and Metaphor with Logan Phillips
SPRING 2022
- Free Time: Building a Community of Mentors for Incarcerated Writers with Joe Watson
- Literary Translation for Everyone with Kelsi Vanada
- Word-hoards and the Lure of the World with Kimberly Johnson
- Reaching toward the Edge -- Love Poems and Boundaries with Donika Kelly
FALL 2021
- Free Time: Building a Community of Mentors for Incarcerated Writers with Joe Watson
- Just Say It with Ted McLoof
- Engagement in Poetry/Engaged Poetry with Javier Zamora
- Senses Working Overtime with Luis Alberto Urrea
- Writing the Future: Climate Change, the Pandemic and Beyond with Pam Uschuk
- Little Rooms Anywhere: The 21st Century American Sonnet with Carl Marcum
SPRING 2021 (VIA THE SHIPMAN AGENCY)
- Free Time: Building a Community of Mentors for Incarcerated Writers with Joe Watson
- Craft Seminar: It Doesn’t Matter What You Choose with Sheila Heti
- The Architecture of Story: the basic dramatic principles with Sunil Yapa
- Craft Seminar: Writing the Poem No One Wants to Read (and You Definitely Don't Want to Write) with Patricia Smith
- Staging the Poem with Tess Taylor
- Remix and Making Poems New – A Revision Workshop with DaMaris Hill
- Meaningful Machines: Introduction to Digital Poetry with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
FALL 2020 (VIA THE SHIPMAN AGENCY)
- Free Time: Building a Community of Mentors for Incarcerated Writers with Joe Watson
- Craft Seminar: Meaningful Machines – An Introduction to Digital Poetry with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
- Craft Seminar: How to Write an Essay Collection with Alexander Chee
- Workshop: Poetry Sequences with Roy G. Guzmán
- Craft Seminar: What is Style? with Garth Greenwell
- Workshop: Chapbook Design by Hand – Combining Image + Text with Hilary Lorenz
- Craft Seminar: Tug-of-War – On Form in Free Verse Poetry with Carl Phillips
- Master Class: Sorrow for Our Songs – A Study of Lament with Tess Taylor
SPRING 2020 (SOME CLASSES SHORTENED OR CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19)
- Free Time: Building a Community of Mentors for Incarcerated Writers with Joe Watson
- Poems as Urgent Speech with Joan Larkin
- Wild Tales: Writing Lyric Nature / Eco Essays with Pam Uschuk
- Breaching the Boundary: Breaking Out of Form and the Fourth Wall in Poetry with Tiana Clark
- The Poetics of Resilience with Monica Sok
- What is Mythopoesis? with Cynthia Hogue
- Writing Well: Essay as Self Help with Dorian Rolston
- Writing Marrow: HEART. SOUL. SPIRIT. ESSENCE. SUBSTANCE. CENTER. with Denise Chávez
FALL 2019
- Free Time: Building a Community of Mentors for Incarcerated Writers with Joe Watson
- Engagement in Poetry/ Engaged Poetry with Javier Zamora
- Food is Connected to Everything: Writing the Culinary Essay with Wren Awry
- Picture Books: Writing Children’s Stories for a Competitive Market with Stephanie Pearmain
- About Our Ancestors: The Poetics of Postmemory with Brandon Shimoda
- Lyric Essays: Experiments with Found and Invented Forms with Katherine Larson
SPRING 2019
- Free Time: Building a Community of Mentors for Incarcerated Writers with Joe Watson
- Laughing in the Dark, with Charlie Buck
- The Shape of Water: Turbulence & Flow in the Personal Essay, with Marin Sardy
- Better Poetry Through Algebra: OULIPO & Unlimited Poetry, with Adam O. Davis
- Writing the Wild: A Poetry Intensice, with Pamela Uschuk
- Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop, with Maurya Simon
FALL 2018
- Under the Skin: An Exploration of Autotheory, with Ari Zwartjes
- Reading and Writing the Poetry of Witness, with Cynthia Hogue
- Flash Fiction: Writing the Short-Short Story, with Dana Diehl
- Beyond Landscape: Writing Where You Are (Or Aren’t), with Sarah Gzemski
- Poetry as Matrix w/ Sarah Vap
SPRING 2018
- Occult Poetics, with CA Conrad
- Cauterizing Wounds: Writing to Heal, with Pam Uschuk
- To Make a Human Thing, with Ada Limón
- Persona, Archetypes, + Exposure: Writing the Complicated Self, with Kati Standefer
- Narrowing the Distance: Prison + the Outside, with Joe Watson
- Creativity Lab: Generating Writing through Sensory Engagement, with Lisa O’Neill
FALL 2017
- Literature of the Borderlands, with Francisco Cantú
- What Is an Image to Do: Using Your Body to Read a Poem, with Jorie Graham
- Revisioning, with Laura Maher
- Music As Source, with Dan Kruse
- Physical Em(body)ment of Language, with Layli Long Soldier
- Rewriting Our Family Stories, with Danielle Geller
SUMMER 2017
- The Art of Genre in Short Fiction, with Ted Mcloof
- The Poetics of Lived Experience: A Writing Workshop, with Steven Alvarez
- Poetry Lab, with Sarah Kortemeier
- When We Dead Awaken: Reading Adrienne Rich, with Jane Miller
SPRING 2017
- Disorienting the Essay: Finding Form in Personal Nonfiction, with Katherine E. Standefer
- Ecopoetics & Your Next Poem: A Weekend Workshop, with Brenda Hillman
- Outsider Literature: Writing from the Urgent Edges, with Robert Snyderman
- Documentary Storytelling in Prose, with Lisa O’Neill
- Writing Resistance and Recovery, with Hoa Nguyen
- Oracular Writing: Living Images, with Annie Guthrie
FALL 2016
- Beyond Measure: Experiments in the Music of Poetry, with Samuel Ace
- Writing Past Pain and Into Possibility, with Camille Dungy
- The Art of the Chapbook, with Joni Wallace
- Writing the Wild: A Weekend Intensive, with Pam Uschuk
- Nonfiction as Reconstruction, with Francisco Cantú
SUMMER 2016
- Are We There Yet? Pacing and Payoff in Narrative Verse, with Adrian Matejka
- The Deepened Image, with Christopher Nelson
- Screenwriting: The Basics, with Ted McLoof
- Collaboration Playvacation, with Hannah Ensor
SPRING 2016
- Mode in Poems, with Natasha Sajé
- Compositional Improvisation as Poetic Practice, with Kimi Eisele and TC Tolbert
- Radiance: Where Is the Poem Going? with Kimiko Hahn
- Finding Form: Inventions, Inversions, and Eliminations in Hybrid Construction, with Khadijah Queen
- Lyric Complexity: A Craft Class, with David Baker
- Oracular Writing: Transduction, with Annie Guthrie
FALL 2015
- The Telling Itself: Illness Narratives as Healing and Craft, with Katherine E. Standefer
- The Art of the Chapbook, with Joni Wallace
- Moving with the Body of the Text: A Translation Workshop, with Rebecca Seiferle
- Climate Change & Poetry, with Eric Magrane
- Intertextual Poetics: Writing Into and Through Texts, with Kristi Maxwell
SUMMER 2015
- Parent/Child Writing Summit, with Mason Gates
- Clarity Demystified: A Poetry Workshop, with Christopher Nelson
- Cut to the Chase: Creating Plot in Fiction, with Ted McLoof
- Dislocating the Prose Poem: A Generative Workshop and Survey, with Jamison Crabtree
- Shaping Text with Letterpress, with Amanda Beekhuizen
- The Art of Research: Collaging the Personal Essay, with Aisha Sabatini Sloan
- The Fact of Fiction: Turning Life into Story, with Ted McLoof
SPRING 2015
- The Poem Sequence, with Rebecca Seiferle
- Animals in Poems: Reading and Writing Poems of Creatures Real and Imagined, with Simmons Buntin
- Aligning Structure in Ecopoetics, with Sherwin Bitsui
- Where I'm From: Mapping the Geography and Topography of Our Homelands, with Lisa O'Neill
- Reclaiming Women's Writing, with Annie Finch
- Rhythms of the Spirit, with Annie Finch
FALL 2014
- The Parent-Child Summit, with Mason Gates
- Oracular Writing: Foraging, with Annie Guthrie
- Poetry and the Photograph: Ekphrasis and Beyond, with Samuel Ace
- Finding the Fragment in the Complete Thought, with Thomas Sayers Ellis
SUMMER 2014
- Conventions of Short Fiction, with Ted McLoof
- Imitation: From Faux to Freedom, with Christopher Nelson
- Choosing a Voice: Making Letterpress Posters, with Amanda Beekhuizen
- In the Silence a Collective, Maximally: Erasure and its Ghosts, with Farid Matuk
- Short Poems, with Zachary Schomburg
SPRING 2014
- Line by Line: A Close Reading Workshop, with Sarah Kortemeier
- The New York School of Poets, with Will Cordeiro
- The Autobiographical Eye, with Beth Alvarado
- Bloodstone Quarries of the Spleen, with CAConrad
- The Interior Journey: Reading and Writing as Spiritual Practice, with Fenton Johnson
FALL 2013
- Craft of Poetry, with Sarah Kortemeier
- Ekphrastic Poetry, with Joni Wallace
- Robert Duncan: Circles of Influence, with Charles Alexander
- The Craft of Fiction, with Karen Brennan
- Hybrid Writing: Crossing Prose with Poetry, with Brian Blanchfield
SUMMER 2013
- Surrealist Writing, with Matthew Rotando
- Poetry in Letterpress Print, with Alice Vinson
- Writing Your Gods and Demons, with Christopher Nelson
SPRING 2013
- Oracular Writing: Mapping, with Annie Guthrie
- Poetic Prose and the Prose Poem, with Barbara Henning
- A Weekend of One’s Own, with Pamela Uschuk
- Poetics of the Body and Disability, with Lisa C. Cole
- Poetry in Bloom, with Simmons Buntin
- Writing at Degree Zero, with Norman Fischer
- Listening to Sound Poetry, with John Melillo
FALL 2012
- Correspondences, with Brandon Shimoda
- Constraint-Based Writing, with Kristi Maxwell
- Master's Level Poetry Workshop, with Barbara Cully
- Poemfilms and the Moving Image, with Annie Guthrie and Jonathan Van Ballenberghe
- Happy Accidents: Improvisation for Writers, with Sarah Kortemeier
- Mixed Media Artist’s Books: Working, with Text with Beata Wehr
- Postmodernism as Poetic, with Michael Rerick