Classes

The first session of this workshop will take place Sunday, November 11 and the second will take place on Sunday, November 18. Each class is 10:00 a.m. - noon. Workshop Description: Is there anything as mundane, as practical, as deliciously punchy as a list? This two-session… Read More

This workshop will take place Tuesday, October 16, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at Open Books. In this class, all materials will be provided so that each participant can emerge with their very own work of erasure art. Erasure in this sense means the transformation of… Read More

The first session of this workshop will take place on Sunday, October 21 from 10:00 am - noon. The second will take place on Sunday, October 28 from 10:00 am - noon. Preregistration required. $75 per person. Register here. Class description: We’re living in tumultuous,… Read More

This four-session course will focus on the submitting and publishing process as it applies to literary journals. Whether you’re a longtime submitter looking for a bit more strategy and confidence, a poet who’s just recently begun submitting work, or someone who’s never submitted before but… Read More

Tuesdays, June 5 - June 26, 2018 6:30 - 8:30 pm In this course, we will read and discuss these four books*: In the Language of My Captor, by Shane McCrae Ending in Planes, by Ruth Ellen Kocher Urban Tumbleweed, by Harryette Mullen M Archive,… Read More

This class will take place Friday, August 3, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm. "All this is reportage," wrote George Oppen. In this master class, we'll consider how some contemporary poets have used the "all this" of poetry to respond to the news--and to the experience… Read More

This workshop will take place on April 24 from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm. The pre-registration price is just $25 per person. Register online here! From workshop instructor and Open Books Poet-in-Residence Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Writing poetry feels increasingly like an ongoing and intimate conversation,… Read More

"Revising Your Way to Better Poems: Strategies for Effective Revision" is a four-session course that combines workshop-style feedback sessions with prompts, activities, and strategies designed to help you revise your poetry. Each attendee will select one to two poems that will be revised over the course… Read More

Sunday, April 1, 2018 10:00 am - Noon In this workshop, we will focus on the ghazal as a poetic form: beyond talk about the shape of the poem, the radif (refrain), the qafia (rhyme), and the poet’s signature, we will look at how the… Read More

Sunday, February 18, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm This workshop, led by Chicago-based poet Xandria Phillips, will focus on “un-grammar / marring language and the emotional resonance of sound.” Xandria Phillips is the author of Reasons For Smoking, which won the 2016 Seattle Review chapbook… Read More