If you have been hankering to write poetry in the new year, this is your golden opportunity. Using prompt poems from her new book, Hard Listening, and borrowing some additional exercises from Dorianne Laux’s Finger Exercises for Poets, Alison Luterman will lead a five-week generative workshop, with lots of opportunities to write and share your work in class.

With humor, honesty, and depth, we’ll explore Passion, Little Things, Neighborhoods and Nature, Turning Things Inside Out, and Domestic Blitz.

In this workshop, you’ll be invited to share what you write. Alison will listen closely and appreciatively, offering reflections on themes and craft, but will not be providing line-by-line edits. This is a space for expression, discovery, and connection rather than formal critique.

Lessons on revision will be included, and Alison will share early drafts of her poems, sharing the journey along the way and how she made her way to completion.