POET CAMP Registration

Dwelling in Possibility: Poems inspired by Emily Dickinson’s life and work 

May 13 – July 7, 2026

Hybrid course – Asynchronous weekly content on Wet.Ink (where you’d post your poems for feedback and respond to others) plus optional weekly Google Meet hangout for light discussion, sharing and touch base with our class.

$400, includes 1 hour 1:1 Google Meet with Sarah after the course is over to go over Sarah’s comments on your choice of 4 poems (recorded so you can use for revision after our time together!) – SOLD OUT!

 OR

$325, no instructor feedback

 *Both options ask that you make brief line level comments on at least 3 people’s poems per week in addition to inviting you to post your work. 

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Break away from the idea of Emily Dickinson as the model for the cartoonish, cliche versions of “spinster poet,” scribbling away at her desk, arbitrarily quirky, oblivious to the world around her. In this class, we’ll re-enchant ourselves with the magic of her wild words, we’ll grapple with her love of nature, and her willingness to encounter the unknown. We’ll join her at the window, throwing it open and inviting the same winds that inspired her to bring us to the page. Each week, we’ll consider a brief reading by our mentor muse (a single poem and/or letter) placed in conversation with equally brief works from modern kindred spirit poets and writers in other genres. From these readings, we’ll write new poems from a prompt linked to that week’s topic. Every week will also include optional viewing/listening assignments, each as an invitation to encounter Emily in a different way. 

Please register for the option you prefer.

 *FEEDBACK OPTION IS SOLD OUT! <3