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Discover the art of self-expression through various forms of poetry, from sonnets to haikus, in the vibrant city of New York, where you can learn to embrace your creativity and master the techniques of this timeless art.

2 classes in-person in NYC have spots left, and 3 classes live online are available.

Level 1 Intro to Fiction and Poetry

The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY

Explore the transformative power of persona writing in this introspective workshop at The Writers Studio. Discover how borrowing the voices of accomplished writers can unlock your most intimate stories and turn difficult subject matter into inspiration for fiction and poetry. Broaden your literary style and approach as you deepen your understanding of technique.

(7) Beginner 18 and older
$435

8 sessions

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Reading to Write with Myla Goldberg

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

What makes a good story tick? In this in-person class, Myla Goldberg will take you under the hood of contemporary realist and fabulist fiction to discuss stories from the perspective of craft. You'll plumb the mysteries of scene, point of view, character development and narrative arc, with each discussion culminating with an in-class guided writing exercise inspired by the story. This is not a workshop: rather than share writing, this class creates...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
$185

4 sessions

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Poetry Writing Level 1: 10-Week Workshop (Self-Paced)

Gotham Writers Workshop

Unleash the power of poetry as you learn to pack a maximum punch with a minimum of words. Discover specialized techniques, demands, and forms of poetry, and master the art of writing exquisite verses that captivate the soul. Whether you write for publication or simply for yourself, this workshop will guide you toward creating poetry that resonates and inspires.

(745) Beginner 18 and older
$464

2 sessions

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Online Level 1 Intro to Fiction and Poetry

The Writers Studio @ Google Meet

Unlock your most intimate and private stories through personal writing in this online workshop. Develop narrative and lyric voices to turn even the most difficult subject matter into inspiration for your fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Broaden your sense of what is possible in your own work and receive constructive critiques from teachers and fellow students.

(7) Beginner 18 and older
$435

8 sessions

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Poetry Writing Level 1: 10-Week Workshop (Online)

Gotham Writers Workshop @ Zoom Conference

Unleash the power of poetry as you learn to pack a maximum punch with a minimum of words. Discover specialized techniques, demands, and forms of poetry, and master the art of writing exquisite verses that captivate the soul. Whether you write for publication or simply for yourself, this workshop will guide you toward creating poetry that resonates and inspires.

(745) Beginner 18 and older
$464

10 sessions

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Reading Chaucer with Noam Scheindlin

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales takes us back to a time when the sun still revolved around the Earth, and the Earth was at the center of the Divine Plan. How heavily that cosmic order weighs upon the average person! Chaucer, through his collective portrait of a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, takes us into the backwaters of this cosmic order, and helps us to understand what it is like to live life amidst the hierarchies of both...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$420

4 sessions

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Reading Wallace Stevens with Lisa Goldfarb

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

“Words are the only melodeon,” Stevens proclaims in his “Adagia,” a collection of aphorisms about the art of poetry. One of the 20th century’s great musical poets, Stevens invites us to think about his often playful, meditative, and philosophical poems in relation to music. In this course, we will explore Stevens’s work (early to late verse, from Harmonium to The Rock) with particular focus on his multiple musical aspects:...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$495

17 sessions

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Elegy and Ode with David Yezzi

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Explore poetry’s divided duty—to celebrate, to commemorate—in this weekend intensive. Working from models by Elizabeth Bishop, John Keats, Pablo Neruda, Sappho and others, students will compose original poems and participate in group discussion. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which song underlies these age-old forms.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$400

2 sessions

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Poetry with R.A. Villanueva

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote in a letter that he wanted his poetry to embody “more wreck and less discourse.”   Detour away from the well-worn routines of workshop in these dynamic sessions. Rather than laboring to finish or fix drafts, our sessions will be devoted to generative bursts, improvisational drafts, and provocative conversations about language, memory, and the future of what we create. We will seek to unsettle habits...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$400

6 sessions

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Writing Sonnets

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

How can poets use sonnets to communicate a whole world of thought and emotion in just fourteen lines? Join Rachel Hadas for an immersive weekend looking at how writers have grappled with the sonnet—one of our most durable, versatile, challenging, and generative forms—throughout its long and still evolving history. Each day begins with looking at a wide range of Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets, followed by writing a sonnet of your own.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$400

2 sessions

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Poetry with Emily Skillings

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

When we consider and write poetry we are often drawn towards inescapably large abstractions such as love, death, and time. What happens when we invest (obsessively, meticulously, and with deep care) in the concrete objects that populate our daily lives? In this four-week workshop we will consider how artists in multiple disciplines have made use of things and thingness, meditating on objects and the worlds and affiliations they create in us. ...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$385

4 sessions

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Reading Old English with Miller Oberman

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

While Seamus Heaney’s brilliant translation of Beowulf introduced a wider audience to the only Old English epic poem, most contemporary readers have not encountered the fascinating shorter lyrics written in Old English. This course invites readers into the ancient ruins of the English language, moving through some of the most beautiful poems in The Exeter Book, written about a thousand years ago. From the anonymous voices of longing...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$385

4 sessions

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Written in the Stars—A Workshop on Poetry and Astrology

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Even if we were all to speak the same language, we would speak it differently. This is what makes communication so exciting and so troublesome. For those of us who seek connection that is beyond our personal context, symbolic archetypes can offer a great deal of information. Like math, astrology is a system shared between many cultures (with variation granted for Vedic interpretations); its symbolic correlations can be found in ancient spiritual...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$150
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Advanced Poetry with Emily Fragos

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

In this advanced workshop, students strengthen their writing style and voice by addressing lucidity, the musical line and poetic unpredictability and originality — the transformative and magical power of the art. They also delve into poetry from around the world as inspiration for writing assignments. Students are chosen by Emily Fragos on the basis of a manuscript submission. Click here for submission guidelines.

(1061) Advanced 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$350

4 sessions

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Reading Calvino with Joseph Luzzi

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Italo Calvino is synonymous to readers worldwide of the literary imagination’s power to create alternate worlds of staggering beauty.   In this course, we will consider the Italian author’s remarkable mix of compelling cultural analysis and otherworldly fantasy in three of his most enduring works: Invisible Cities, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.  Our conversations will explore such...

(1061) Advanced 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$385

4 sessions

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Advanced Fiction with Mark Doten

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

What is “voice” in fiction? How does one establish voice, sustain it, complicate or even undermine it? In this workshop, we will consider voice as a fundamental problem of craft and narrative, reading literary and theoretical works that illuminate questions of perspective, dialogue, mood, description, structure and tone. We’ll examine all of this in relation to our own short stories, in engaged and constructive discussions of the writing...

(1061) Advanced 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$350

4 sessions

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Shadowbox Assemblages

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Use found materials to create a low-relief shadowbox, filled with a combination of found objects, magazine images and paint. Create visual poetry from the commonplace, inspired by Joseph Cornell. Q&A Q: Can I make up a class if I miss one?  A: No, make-up classes are not allowed since other classes may be full. Further, instructors are paid based on the number of students within their own classes, so attending a class outside...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$145
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Generative Workshop in Poetry

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Full Course Name Generative Workshop in Poetry with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs What is it that informs our writing? Is it identity? Our mothers? Politics? Language? In this generative workshop, we will write and talk about what provokes and inspires us to write. Culturally we might write as our ancestors might have spoken. Perhaps some of us are not meant to write in a linear fashion. To be “roundabout” or circular may be closer to how our ears...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$100
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The Art of the Image: A Poetry Master Class

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

This master class considers the construction of imagery in poetry—from subject to simile—and how the undertone of music in a line can help bolster that image. From Bishop’s fish to Shaughnessy’s octopus, from Williams’ plums to Hughes’ festering raisin—explore the image: what what drives our lines and what we often find most memorable about a poem.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$125
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Advanced Poetry with Cynthia Cruz

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

When we write poems, we begin with what we don’t know, collecting disparate bits and pieces. When we revise, we use what we know: the pull of sound, language, meaning, silence and order. In this advanced workshop, we look at craft — line, space, stanza, form, music and register of language — as well as the work of outside writers. Students are chosen by Cynthia Cruz on the basis of a manuscript submission.

(1061) Advanced 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$135

3 sessions

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Reviews for Poetry Classes in NYC

Poetry Classes in NYC are rated 4.5 stars based on 1,813 verified reviews from actual CourseHorse.com purchasers.

  • Poetry Writing Level 1: 10-Week Workshop (Online)

    Reviewed by Margaret G D. on 9/17/2019
    Great photo tour - lots of fun, too - Zim is a fantastic teacher!
  • Poetry Writing Level 1: 10-Week Workshop (Online)

    Anonymous review on 12/14/2017
    Michael Montlack was excellent at introducing us to different forms of poetry in an accessible, doable way. He took our poems seriously but also had a sense of humor, which made a difference to me, since I was new to poetry and slightly intimidated by it. I intend to continue writing poems and taking poetry classes largely due to him.
  • Level 1 Intro to Fiction and Poetry

    Anonymous review on 8/31/2017
    It was a truly amazing class and I'm so glad I took a leap of faith and signed up for it. Scott Hunter was a great instructor, extremely friendly, accommodating and always allowed the conversations and discussion to flow smoothly in a manner that was informative, insightful, critical and encouraging.

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