A Short Course: Some of the Essential Emily – November 12 to December 10

12 November 2024 10:30 am

Categories: Public Events, The Annex

Our aim in this class is to look closely at about twenty poems over the course of five weeks. We recommend first of all reading the poems intensely, and in preparation, if you are inclined, to immerse yourselves in her… Read more

A Short Course: More on the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton – January 23 to February 13, 2025

13 January 2025 8:00 am

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In 2022, Kazim Ali offered his original four-part course on the work of Lucille Clifton for the Community of Writers Writers Annex. Following the success of that course and the many requests he had for written versions of his lectures–which… Read more

LATIN AMERICAN DEATH TRIP

30 March 2025 4:00 pm

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Death is the subject of many of the greatest (most moving, innovative, funny, haunting, political, oneiric) Latin American poems of the 20th century, from José Gorostiza’s Death without End to Gabriela Mistral’s “Death Sonnets,” from Xavier Villaurrutia’s Nostalgia for Death… Read more

2025 Poetry Program – June 21-27

21 June 2025 11:00 am

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The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Poetry Program which will be held in-person June 21-27, 2025 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to learn when applications open and when teaching staff are announced.… Read more

2025 Summer Writers Workshops in Fiction, Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction

07 July 2025 11:00 am

Categories: Featured, Public Events

The Community of Writers is delighted to announce the Writers Workshops in Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction and Memoir which will be held in-person July 7-14, 2025 in Olympic Valley, California. Join our mailing list to be informed when applications open and… Read more