POET CAMP Registration

8 Weeks. Sept 16 – Nov 10 2026

Asynchronous, Wet.Ink

$400 *limited seats* include feedback OR $325 without 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.

Susan Roberts recently retired after 38 years of teaching Poetry, Creative Writing and Literature at Boston College. She will continue to teach in the University’s Prison Education Program (PEP), as well as in the graduate program in Writing and the Human Condition. Her poems have been most recently published in Dovecote Magazine, ellipsis, The RavensPerch, The Tishman Review, Salamander, The Brooklyn Quarterly and Sharkpack Annual, and The MacGuffin. Susan divides her time between the gothic homestead in central Vermont where she was raised and the busy weirdness of Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.