Button Up: Poetry 101

06/04/2026 – Poetic Time & Timelessness: Time Traveling and Suspension in Your Poetry W/ Phil SaintDenisSanchez. In this generative and analytical workshop, we’ll find ways to reimagine poetic time. How can we can re-envision time from a linear, rigid, immutable, all-encompassing force to a malleable, elusive, mysterious, even playful dimension that oscillates between presence and absence in the expansive space of our poetry? Drawing inspiration from the work of Matthew Rasmussen, W.B. Yeats, Li-Young Lee, Shakespeare, and Tracey K. Smith, we will explore the body as the medium through which we experience time and how intentionally writing into alternate understandings of temporality allows us to experience the same events in new and potentially empowering ways.

06/11/2026 – The Poem is a Protest W/ FreeQuency

06/25/2026 – POEMS AS NARRATIVE INTERVENTIONS w/ Kyle Tran Myhre. Poetry-centered workshops, events, and programs often talk about “the power of our stories.” In this workshop, we’ll dig into what that can mean, especially in the context of narrative organizing: shaping the *stories* that animate our values, politics, and actions. We will explore poems as “narrative interventions,” and how poets can use the platforms we have access to to (1) disrupt harmful narratives about issues, places, and people, and (2) cultivate counter-narratives centering agency, solidarity, and resistance.

07/30/2026 – Taylor Mali

08/06/2026 – Patrick Roche
08/13/2026 – Edythe Rodriguez
08/20/2026 – Usman Hameedi
08/27/2026 – Aly Acevedo