Online Courses

How can we write poems of genuine faith in an increasingly disingenuous world?

Explore the dynamic world of 20th Century Latinx poetry as inspiration for new poems and translations of your own.

Use choruses, repetition, and other techniques to create echoes and resonances that amplify.

Explore Oulipean constraints to shake up your writing practice.

Explore Shamanic poetic practices to learn how to bring the Bardic into your writing.

Explore poetry’s origins in oral magic and myth to begin groundwork for your own grimoire.

Experiment with the possibilities of screenwriting and scripts as a form for your poetry.

Reveal your hand, show your face, and rise from your poems’ surfaces to ask what you’re doing, and why?

Discover your sensuous side and write poems exploring the radiant materiality of curious objects

Knock your loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet and essayist, Shivanee Ramlochan.

Write new poems for children, inspired by Charles Causley.

Closely examine the work of Robert Frost to take inspiration from one of poetry’s true masters.

Dive into the unexplored world of Georgian modernism and learn how these writers forged poetry from political oppression.

Explore one of the world's greatest neglected literatures with expert Steve Komarnyckyj.

Develop your own ‘poetry of place’ as we explore the poetic possibilities of, real and imaginary, locations.

Learn to write directly, imaginatively, tenderly, and fearlessly about the different shapes, tastes, and textures of queer sex.

Consider what it means to write about family, as we experiment with different ways to approach this sometimes-thorny topic.

Explore the beautiful, ugly, messy, and raw world of emotion as inspiration for important new poems.

Take inspiration from a poetic tradition filled with imaginative verse and spanning more than eight centuries.

Displace poetic hierarchies and revel in hedonistic Carnival-style freedom in your poetry.

Explore poetry and collage to expand your practice and open up new avenues for mixed-media writing.

Consider how we might ethically approach the Holocaust in our writing and what it means to write this topic today.