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Poets in all stages in their poetic journey, providing support, critique, advice, and poetry

This is for poets who actively reflect on the world we live in and who write poem as a way of life.  

We seek to meet once a week for 60-90 minutes to look at a maximum of 6 poems. Most meetings will be close critiques of poems, with kindness and constructive honesty, with the intent that these poems...

The purpose of this group is to explore the relationship between art and poetry. If your writing is more prose-oriented (i.e no line breaks), that is also acceptable.

Brooklyn Writers Room is a workshop group for fiction writers and poets. We meet monthly on Zoom (day and time to be determined) to read each other's work closely and give feedback that's specific enough to actually use. Bring short stories, novel excerpts, or poems in progress. Open to all...

Constraint-based writing can open unexpected doors. In this 10-session generative workshop, participants will respond to inventive craft prompts designed to produce new work while deepening awareness of craft techniques across genres.

Each session combines generative writing with short discussions...

The Get Rid of Submissions Pain! is a chance for members to share freely their hopes, successes, difficulties with submitting their work to publications and publishing houses. Ideally, the sharing will uncover helpful information for members.

A haibun is a prose poem that ends in a haiku. The purpose of this workshop is to learn the craft of haibun and encourage their practice.

A space for writers to gather, inspire one another, and share their work.

This group will meet online once a month for 60-90 minutes at a time arranged by members (but during daytime or early evening hours in the Central time zone) to share and critique drafts of poems with the goal of submitting them for publication. Members will alternate submitting drafts. Two...

I'm hoping to build a group of poets interested in working toward publication. Ideally, this group would exchange new or newly revised work every two weeks and share feedback monthly. I'm looking for group members who:

• value accountability and deadlines
• have experience in a workshop setting
• have been...

This is a reworking of an old group. The purpose of Persona Poetry is to inhabit the skin of the other--that is, those who are not us. For those who do not know what persona poetry looks like, I will give you a poem below:

The Simpsons as Told By Lisa

I wake up, and the horrible thunder

of morning...

A cento is a collage of other people’s writing. Traditionally, it involves none of the creator’s own words. The work for the creator comes from establishing a deep familiarity with the texts that form the basis of the collage. It also involves a clear and consistent idea of the theme, subject or...