WORKSHOP

We offer monthly theme-based online writing workshops. Workshops are designed to create an accessible and supportive space to both emerging writers as well as those with an established practice. Participants submit poems for feedback on a weekly basis, with optional writing prompts also provided. Space is provided at the end of each workshop for a discussion of the weekly readings. Scroll down for more information.

Wastelands

Now enrolling for August

For August, we will look at four sprawling modernist utopian and dystopian visionary epics. Specifically, “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot,“ “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land” by Aimé Césaire, “The Bridge” by Hart Crane, and “The Tower” by W.B. Yeats. A great excuse to read these daunting texts you always want to get around to but never do!

Class meets on Tuesdays in August.

4 weekly Tuesday meetings
August 5, 12, 19, 26.
6-8pm EST
meetings held online via Zoom
$75-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: WASTELANDS

BYOP! BRING YOUR OWN POEMS

Now enrolling for August.

This August, the workshop is BYOP! Bring Your Own Poems! As a group, we will share poems by other poets that we all individually love. The curriculum is fluid! The curriculum is whatever you want it to be.

Class meets on Thursdays in August.

4 weekly Thursday meetings
August 7, 14, 21, 28.
6-8pm EST
meetings held online via Zoom
$75-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: BYOP!

For September, blush presents FILTHY MOUTH, an online workshop-seminar.  Topics of concern will be the erotic, the vulgar, the decadent, the insurgent, the irreverent, the radical, the profane, the satirical, the unapologetic, the pissed off, and the badly behaved. Reading list includes Strato of Sardis, Sappho, Catallus, Martial, John Wilmot; Earl of Rochester, Ikkyu, Bob Kaufman, Diane DiPrima, June Jordan, Amiri Baraka, Miyo Vestrini, Etheridge Knight, Walasse Ting, Jim Brodey, Bernadette Mayer.

Class meets on Tuesdays in September.

5 weekly Tuesday meetings
September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30.
6-8pm EST
meetings held online via Zoom
$75-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: FILTHY MOUTH

THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER

This workshop is fully enrolied.

For the month of July, the DEAD POETS WORKSHOP is doing a book club, and that book is THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER, James Merrill's 560 page epic trilogy composed over the course of 20 years by way of transcribing supernatural Ouija board transmissions received by Merrill and his partner David Jackson. We will read and discuss the entire text along with supplementary criticism.

Cultivation of our own divinatory practices will be strongly encouraged! Students are required to obtain their own copies of the text for this session.

Students will submit poems for feedback on a weekly basis, with optional writing prompts also provided. We will put our writing in conversation with the DEAD to better understand why were are even writing poems in the first place. Class meets on Thursdays in July.

4 weekly Thursday meetings
July 3, 10, 17, 24.
6-8pm EST
meetings held online via Zoom
$75-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: SANDOVER