Poetry Group (Ongoing)

Class Description

This group is for poets of all levels, at any stage of the process who want to be part of a supportive, weekly ONGOING writing group, whether you’re generating new poems or at work on your fourth collection! Meetings are structured so as to be casual and manageable with busy lifestyles, and as such there will be no readings or assignments outside of group meetings, and the commitment to your own writing. Each meeting will include a mix of text-study and discussion of masterful poems; discussion and breakdown of different craft topics; prompts and generative in-class writing time; and an opportunity to share your work (and/or goals) aloud with the group for on-the-spot feedback and/or brainstorming (always optional). The week-by-week agenda (including topics of discussion and poems the group will discuss) will evolve and change in response to the interests and goals of the writers in the group, as led by Anders. Above all, the Poetry Group is a space of community-building, creative support, and craft / process development for writers who aim to make time for their work and want to connect with other writers in a supportive, stimulating environment. Please note: This group offers the opportunity for verbal on-the-spot feedback for those who would like to share work during class time, yet this group does not provide formal workshopping, written feedback, or submission of work for critique. STRUCTURE: This is an ongoing group that meets weekly for eight weeks, followed by a 2 - 3-week break, before continuing on for another eight week session, and so forth. Registration in this group is according to an ongoing subscription / membership plan: once you register, your place is held in INSTRUCTOR ANDERS CARLSON-WEE is the author of Disease of Kings (W.W. Norton, 2023), The Low Passions (W.W. Norton, 2019), a New York Public Library Book Group Selection, and Dynamite (Bull City Press, 2015), winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Prize. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, BuzzFeed, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, he is the winner of the Poetry International Prize. His work has been translated into Chinese. Anders holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University and is represented by Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents. Find him at www.anderscarlsonwee.com

Cancellation Policy

If you withdraw from a workshop ten days or more before the start of the class: You'll receive full credit toward another workshop OR a full refund (minus the payment processing service charge of 10%). If you withdraw from a workshop nine days before the start of the class up until 48 hours before: You'll receive a refund minus 20%. If you withdraw from a workshop less than 48 hours before the start of a class or after the class has begun: We are not able to offer you credit toward another class or a refund. In the case of medical emergency, please contact us directly and this will be handled on a case-by-case basis. If you are absent on the day of your workshop or miss it for any reason, we are unable to offer any kind of refund or credit. However, if we have to cancel a class you have paid for, you will receive a full refund, without the service charge deducted, or if you choose, credit in the amount of your payment to be used for any future PVWW class. Anyone who does

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