readings and events
Writers Studio Live Remote Poetry for Everyone 2025 (class 1/2 full as of 05/03/25)
June 11, 2025 - 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Are you a dedicated prose writer, but sometimes just want to write a poem? (As Vladimir Nabokov wrote, “You have to saturate yourself with English poetry in order to compose English prose.”) Have you written poetry on your own, maybe secretly, and want to learn more? Do you take writing classes and, increasingly, ask yourself whether you could try your hand at writing a poem? In this six-week class, we will try poetry-writing exercises based on accessible, yet artistically challenging and satisfying, models. Each week's exercise focuses on one basic poetic technique. The last week offers an opportunity to work on either a revision or a poetic form exercise. In the weekly, unrecorded live classes via Google Meet, we will share work, offer feedback, and discuss the next week’s exercise. All are welcome. For six weeks, be a poet!
The Google Meets are not recorded.
courses.writerstudio.com/courses/online-poetry-for-everyone-bellamy-summer-2025
Writers Studio Craft Class
May 14, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching Constellation Route by Matthew Olzmann
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Summer 2025
Three 6-week sections. All closed. Please use contact form to ask about fall term waiting list.
courses.writerstudio.com/courses/online-advanced-poetry-bellamy-summer-2025-starts-june-2
Exercise-based, experimental, and generative, using The Writers Studio method. Writers with MFAs, poetry publications, or advanced poetry-writing experience, or Writers Studio students who have completed Level 2 or equivalent welcome. The two sections are full. Questions and appplications via this website's contact form or via The Writers Studio.
Writers Studio Live Remote Maintaining Your Creative Spirit: Writing Through Challenging Times Spring 2025
Writers Studio Craft Class
March 17, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Spring 2025 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Reading
January 12, 2025, 2 p.m., Freddy's Bar, Backroom
627 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
With other Writers Studio fellows; reading new poems from manuscript-in-proress
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket by Kinsale Drake
December 3, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Winter 2025 - CLOSED
Exercise-based, experimental, and generative, using The Writers Studio method. Writers with MFAs, poetry publications, or advanced poetry-writing experience, or Writers Studio students who have completed Level 2 or equivalent welcome. The two sections are full. Questions and appplicationns for Spring 2025 via this website's contact form or via The Writers Studio.
Mondays and Thursdays (7:00 - 9:30 p.m. Eastern)
Writers Studio Live Remote Prose Poetry Fall 2024 - CLOSED
Six-week class. Multi-level. All welcome.
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts by Dana Roeser
October 8, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Fall 2024 - CLOSED
Exercise-based, experimental, and generative, using The Writers Studio method. Writers with poetry-writing experience or Writers Studio students after Level 2 or equivalent welcome. The two sections are full. Questions and appplicationns for Winter 2025 via this website's contact form or via The Writers Studio.
Writers Studio Live Remote Poetry for Everyone Summer 2024 - CLOSED
Six-week class. Multi-level. All welcome.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Summer 2024 - CLOSED
Exercise-based, experimental, and generative, using The Writers Studio method. Writers with poetry-writing experience or Writers Studio students after Level 2 or equivalent welcome. Questions and appplicationns for Fall 2024 via this website's contact form or via The Writers Studio.
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Deluge by Leila Chatti
April 16, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Spring 2024 - CLOSED
Two 8-week sections:
Thursday, March 14 (6:30 - 9:00 p.m. Eastern) - and Monday, March 18 (7:00 - 9:30 p.m. Eastern)
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching We Are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt
February 27, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Pushcart Prize XLVIII Best of the Small Presses Reading - Zoom
January 21, 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAD188-iGKg
Writers Studio Live Remote Poetry and Spirituality - CLOSED
April 17, 2024 - May 22, 2024
Wednesdays Live Remote Class 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Eastern time
Google Meet class (not recorded)
May 9, 2023
Writers Studio Craft Class
Co-teaching (with Writers Studio director Philip Schultz) Blessed as We Were by Gerald Stern
April 4, 2023
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Hello I Must Be Going by David Hernandez
December 20, 2022
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Against Heaven by Kemi Alabi
October 18, 2022
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Today in the Taxi by Sean Singer
March 13, 2022
Writers Studio Faculty Reading, 7 p.m.
January 24, 2021, 7 p.m.
Writers Studio Faculty Reading
Recording accessed here. Reading starts at 35 minutes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXv_41OWc_c
November 14, 2019
Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 Reading
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway, New York City
7:00 p.m.
October 14, 2018
The Northway Writers Studio book launch
Reading and book signing
With Master Class students Judy Gerber and Hani Omar Khalil
The Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street, New York
5:00 p.m.
www.zincbar.com/
September 29, 2018
The Northway
Reading and book signing
With poet Aimee Baker
www.aimeebaker.com/
Upper Jay Art Center
Upper Jay, NY
12198 Route 9N
7:00 p.m.
upperjayartcenter.org/calendar/?mc_id=296
September 27, 2018
Writers Studio Hudson Reading
The Northway reading and book signing
Reading with Writers Studio faculty and students
Spotty Dog Books and Ale
440 Warren Street, Hudson, NY
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
www.thespottydog.com/
September 8, 2018
St. Bart's 100 Celebration
Writers Studio writing workshop
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
325 Park Avenue, New York
Pre-registration necessary - contact St. Bart's at stbarts.org/
July 28, 2018
The New York City Poetry Festival
Writers Studio Reading
Governors Island
Chumley's Stage, 2:30 p.m.
www.newyorkcitypoetryfestival.com/
March 25, 2018
The Writers Studio Reading
Faculty and Master Class Students
The Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street, New York
5:00 p.m.
June 11, 2025 - 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Are you a dedicated prose writer, but sometimes just want to write a poem? (As Vladimir Nabokov wrote, “You have to saturate yourself with English poetry in order to compose English prose.”) Have you written poetry on your own, maybe secretly, and want to learn more? Do you take writing classes and, increasingly, ask yourself whether you could try your hand at writing a poem? In this six-week class, we will try poetry-writing exercises based on accessible, yet artistically challenging and satisfying, models. Each week's exercise focuses on one basic poetic technique. The last week offers an opportunity to work on either a revision or a poetic form exercise. In the weekly, unrecorded live classes via Google Meet, we will share work, offer feedback, and discuss the next week’s exercise. All are welcome. For six weeks, be a poet!
The Google Meets are not recorded.
courses.writerstudio.com/courses/online-poetry-for-everyone-bellamy-summer-2025
Writers Studio Craft Class
May 14, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching Constellation Route by Matthew Olzmann
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Summer 2025
Three 6-week sections. All closed. Please use contact form to ask about fall term waiting list.
courses.writerstudio.com/courses/online-advanced-poetry-bellamy-summer-2025-starts-june-2
Exercise-based, experimental, and generative, using The Writers Studio method. Writers with MFAs, poetry publications, or advanced poetry-writing experience, or Writers Studio students who have completed Level 2 or equivalent welcome. The two sections are full. Questions and appplications via this website's contact form or via The Writers Studio.
Writers Studio Live Remote Maintaining Your Creative Spirit: Writing Through Challenging Times Spring 2025
Writers Studio Craft Class
March 17, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Teaching The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Spring 2025 - CLOSED
Writers Studio Reading
January 12, 2025, 2 p.m., Freddy's Bar, Backroom
627 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
With other Writers Studio fellows; reading new poems from manuscript-in-proress
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket by Kinsale Drake
December 3, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Winter 2025 - CLOSED
Exercise-based, experimental, and generative, using The Writers Studio method. Writers with MFAs, poetry publications, or advanced poetry-writing experience, or Writers Studio students who have completed Level 2 or equivalent welcome. The two sections are full. Questions and appplicationns for Spring 2025 via this website's contact form or via The Writers Studio.
Mondays and Thursdays (7:00 - 9:30 p.m. Eastern)
Writers Studio Live Remote Prose Poetry Fall 2024 - CLOSED
Six-week class. Multi-level. All welcome.
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts by Dana Roeser
October 8, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Fall 2024 - CLOSED
Exercise-based, experimental, and generative, using The Writers Studio method. Writers with poetry-writing experience or Writers Studio students after Level 2 or equivalent welcome. The two sections are full. Questions and appplicationns for Winter 2025 via this website's contact form or via The Writers Studio.
Writers Studio Live Remote Poetry for Everyone Summer 2024 - CLOSED
Six-week class. Multi-level. All welcome.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Summer 2024 - CLOSED
Exercise-based, experimental, and generative, using The Writers Studio method. Writers with poetry-writing experience or Writers Studio students after Level 2 or equivalent welcome. Questions and appplicationns for Fall 2024 via this website's contact form or via The Writers Studio.
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Deluge by Leila Chatti
April 16, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Writers Studio Live Remote Advanced Poetry Spring 2024 - CLOSED
Two 8-week sections:
Thursday, March 14 (6:30 - 9:00 p.m. Eastern) - and Monday, March 18 (7:00 - 9:30 p.m. Eastern)
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching We Are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt
February 27, 2024, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Pushcart Prize XLVIII Best of the Small Presses Reading - Zoom
January 21, 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAD188-iGKg
Writers Studio Live Remote Poetry and Spirituality - CLOSED
April 17, 2024 - May 22, 2024
Wednesdays Live Remote Class 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Eastern time
Google Meet class (not recorded)
May 9, 2023
Writers Studio Craft Class
Co-teaching (with Writers Studio director Philip Schultz) Blessed as We Were by Gerald Stern
April 4, 2023
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Hello I Must Be Going by David Hernandez
December 20, 2022
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Against Heaven by Kemi Alabi
October 18, 2022
Writers Studio Craft Class
Teaching Today in the Taxi by Sean Singer
March 13, 2022
Writers Studio Faculty Reading, 7 p.m.
January 24, 2021, 7 p.m.
Writers Studio Faculty Reading
Recording accessed here. Reading starts at 35 minutes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXv_41OWc_c
November 14, 2019
Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 Reading
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway, New York City
7:00 p.m.
October 14, 2018
The Northway Writers Studio book launch
Reading and book signing
With Master Class students Judy Gerber and Hani Omar Khalil
The Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street, New York
5:00 p.m.
www.zincbar.com/
September 29, 2018
The Northway
Reading and book signing
With poet Aimee Baker
www.aimeebaker.com/
Upper Jay Art Center
Upper Jay, NY
12198 Route 9N
7:00 p.m.
upperjayartcenter.org/calendar/?mc_id=296
September 27, 2018
Writers Studio Hudson Reading
The Northway reading and book signing
Reading with Writers Studio faculty and students
Spotty Dog Books and Ale
440 Warren Street, Hudson, NY
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
www.thespottydog.com/
September 8, 2018
St. Bart's 100 Celebration
Writers Studio writing workshop
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
325 Park Avenue, New York
Pre-registration necessary - contact St. Bart's at stbarts.org/
July 28, 2018
The New York City Poetry Festival
Writers Studio Reading
Governors Island
Chumley's Stage, 2:30 p.m.
www.newyorkcitypoetryfestival.com/
March 25, 2018
The Writers Studio Reading
Faculty and Master Class Students
The Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street, New York
5:00 p.m.