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 about upcoming sessions.

For September, blush presents BAD 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 sardonic, the unapologetic, the pissed off, and the badly behaved. Reading list includes Strato of Sardis, Sappho, Catallus, Martial, Sei Shōnagon, 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: BAD MOUTH

Wastelands

Now enrolling for September

Wastelands returns for September! 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 Thursdays in September.

4 weekly Thursday meetings
September 4, 11, 18, 25.
6-8pm EDT
meetings held online via Zoom
$75-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: WASTELANDS

THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER

Now enrolling. Dates TBA. Workshop will run once enough interested parties are enrolled!

This workshop is 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.

Dates TBA - Workshop will run once enough interested parties are enrolled!

meetings held online via Zoom
$75-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: SANDOVER