Classes

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