CLASSROOMS
Classes
“Live” Poet Camp events meet on Google Meet.
Hybrid Poet Camp classes are hosted on Live Google Meet, with course materials and a place to post work on Wet.Ink, an online learning platform designed for writing workshops.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road:
Poems Inspired by the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
with Guest Teacher Susan Roberts
8 weeks, Sept. 16 – Nov. 10
Asynchronous, Wet.Ink
$325 *without feedback or $400 *limited seats include feedback
We’re off to see what work awaits, guided by Dorothy and her companions! In this class, we’ll be using a variety of Ozian perspectives to investigate themes of wonder, friendship, displacement, identity and desire, and especially of journey and transformation. In addition to the original book, each week you’ll find links to videos, poems and a few articles, but the main work here will be to use Oz as a place for exploration in your own writing. Each week we’ll write new poems from a prompt linked to Baum’s masterpiece, and many adaptations of these travels. You’ll be invited to share your thoughts and the work they inspire with classmates, and for light instructor feedback if you choose. (10 seats with feedback available. General seats do not include instructor feedback.) By the end of class, you’ll have several new drafts, a few new ways to write your way home, and a renewed sense that you had the power all along.
October/November Jumpstarts
2 weeks of live Google Meet Jumpstarts with prompts, quick-writes and a pdf full of extras to recharge your daily writing routine.
*LAST week of OCTOBER and FIRST week of November 2026
*Please plan to arrive early – doors open at 8:45 for gentle hellos, and close around 10 to allow for soft goodbyes, and help us build a warm and supportive atmosphere for each other.
*Join us for all or just a few of these sessions! Everyone who registers will receive the pdf with prompts and extras at the end of our two weeks together.
$50/$25 for 1st time Jumpstarters
Sarah note: If the reduced rate would enable you to join us, please use that link. No questions asked! <3
Sound, Sense, Subversion, & Silence
with Jane Huffman
In this class, poet Jane Huffman will address the primary craft tools that drive her poetry practice, using poems from her forthcoming book, Dilemma (Vanderbilt University Press, 2027) as teaching tools. She will focus on leveraging slant rhyme and other sonic devices, resisting narrative resolution without totally losing the plot, practicing various formal structures (including “prosemetric” forms, those which contain both verse and prose), and developing what Stefan Wolp calls “traffic sense.”
Jane Huffman’s debut collection, PUBLIC ABSTRACT, won the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Dana Levin. Buy a copy of PUBLIC ABSTRACT here. Jane is a doctoral student in poetry at the University of Denver and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She founded and was editor-in-chief of Guesthouse, an online literary journal, for seven years, and is currently Associate Editor for Denver Quarterly. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.