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  • What We Do
  • Level I
    • Living Vivid
    • The Sonnet
    • Poetics Lab
    • Blank Verse
    • A Day in the Life
    • The Poem’s Ending
    • Poets in SPACE
    • The Elegiac Tradition
    • Memento Mori
    • Silence & Sound
    • The Narrative Poem
    • Form & Freedom
    • The Epistolary Form
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    • God of Boat & Mouth & Ear
    • Fast Break
    • Poetry and Memoir
    • In Praise Of
    • The Mythic Mundane
    • The Poetry of Complaint
    • The Modern (Anti-)Love Poem
    • Poetry as Truth Serum
    • Crafting Line Breaks
    • Odd Forms
    • Structure & Play
    • The Praise Poem
    • The Elegy
    • The Letter as/in Poetry
    • Repetition & Variation
    • Won’t You Celebrate with Me?
    • Looking for the I
    • Tricks of Inspiration
    • Dear Readers
    • Rhyme Redemption
    • Plain American
    • Free Verse Techniques
    • Creating Resonant Images
    • Stretching Tension
    • Turn It Again
    • Charging Language
    • Rhythm & Meter
    • The Line
  • Level II
    • Writing Revolutionary Love
    • On I Go
    • Portals into Language
    • The Poetic Sequence
    • Lyrical Commons
    • Filling the Page
    • Text and Image
    • Poetry of Resistance
    • The Preposterous and Sublime
    • Feeding Yourself
    • Active Listening
    • R&B, Poetry and Me
    • Re-Visioning the Timeline
    • Recess for Poets
    • A Box of Bees
    • Ars Apocalyptica
    • Influence in Both Directions
    • Beauty & Truth
    • The Harvest
    • Being a Being
    • Writing & Healing
    • A Chorus of Selves
    • Poetry & the City
    • Poet Against Empire
    • The Epiphany
    • The Uncanny Poem
    • Girders & Cables
    • Ecstasy in Poetry
    • Funny, Ha Ha
    • The Language of Desire
    • The Poet at Work
    • The Involuntary Practice
    • The Melancholia of Class
    • The Fictive Poem
    • Poetry & Jazz
    • Poetics of I-mage
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    • Writing from the Disaster
    • The Personal Is Political
    • Rewriting Myths
    • So This is Madness
    • A Vernacular Future
    • Hungry Ghosts
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    • Practicing the Poetics of Space
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    • Divine Rascals
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    • Collaborating with the Room
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    • Against the State
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  • Level III
    • MFA Application Bootcamp
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    • Creating a Book
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    • Montage as Poetic Form
    • Writing as Waking Dream
    • Imagining the Future
    • Writing & Healing
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    • The Great Unknowns
    • My House But Not My House
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  • What We Do

    In keeping with the artisanal tradition of the borough, Brooklyn Poets offers small, intensive poetry workshops taught by award-winning poets in their own homes to foster closer mentoring, peer feedback and attention to craft than traditional graduate workshops offer—at a fraction of the price. Workshops are offered in the winter–spring, summer and fall at three different levels: 1) Foundational Forms; 2) Contemporary Practice; 3) Manuscript Review. Workshops typically run for 5–7 weeks, with one three-hour session per week on weeknights or weekend afternoons/early evenings, culminating in a Workshop Showcase which all students are invited to participate in. Admission to Levels I and II is by open enrollment; Level-III workshops and manuscript consultations require a writing sample. In addition, we offer a Mentorship Program providing developing writers with twelve months of immersive training in becoming a poet, as well as single-session workshops for students who don’t have time for a longer commitment. Students in need can apply for fellowships to participate in a workshop or manuscript consultation for free.

    *Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all workshops will be conducted online until further notice.*

  • Level I

    Foundational Forms. Grounding in the basics of poetic form, from metered verse to free verse. Students study models of a different formal approach every week and practice and workshop their own poems in the form. Read More.

  • Level II

    Contemporary Practice. Specialized workshops intended to push students beyond their usual compositional practice. Greater emphasis on working with contemporary methods and materials and drawing upon alternative modes of poetic production. Read More.

  • Level III

    Manuscript Review. Advanced workshops and private consultations providing extensive feedback on manuscripts, either book-length projects or shorter portfolios. Read More.

  • Mentorship Program

    Mentorship Program. Our new Mentorship Program provides developing writers with twelve months of immersive training in becoming a poet under the sustained guidance of a mentor. Read more.

  • Single Session

    Single Session. Single-session, open-level workshops for students whose schedule or budget does not allow for a longer commitment. Read more.

  • Fellowships

    Each workshop season, we award fellowships to promising students in need to enroll in a workshop or manuscript consultation for free. Read more.

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