Informed by memory, communal and solo food experiences, recipes and nostalgia, we’ll “break bread together” by way of flash-generative writing prompts. We’ll write new material with food, culture and taste as our communal writing table.
26.02.2026 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us Friday, March 13th, for our next Yawp, featuring poet Anastacia-Renee leading a workshop: “The Main Course: Writing Poems About Food Through the Lens of the Haibun” from her upcoming spring workshop for Brooklyn Poets.
Register: events.brooklynpoets.org/events/brook...
We were thrilled to celebrate the launch of Chiara Di Lello's new book, Childless Millennial, last week. Thanks to Ashna Ali and Sarah Lyn Rogers, as well as to all who braved the rain to attend!
25.02.2026 23:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
LAST CHANCE to explore the poetry of revenge in this online workshop with b ferguson: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/r...
22.02.2026 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don’t miss your last chance to explore revenge, visual poetry, the sonnet, and blank verse with b ferguson, @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social and @joshuamehigan.bsky.social in these workshops that have deadlines in the next week ⏳ brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
20.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this five-week, in-person workshop with @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social, we’ll see what happens when we interrupt ourselves, change thoughts midstream and misdirect our own poems. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...
19.02.2026 22:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0LAST DAY to register for this workshop with I.S. Jones!
19.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Since 1540, blank verse has proven to be one of the most dynamic forms in English. In this six-week, online workshop, explore the various expressive textures of blank verse and consider some of the effects available to writers working in the form.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
And for NYC folks, I'd love to see you next week to celebrate this book at Brooklyn Poets! Friday 2/20, 7pm
@sarahlynwrites.bsky.social will be there, along with Ashna Ali! @brooklynpoets.bsky.social
Tickets here: brooklynpoets.org/events/all/b...
My @brooklynpoets.bsky.social Revision Intensive is sold out!
12.02.2026 17:57 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In this five-week, in-person generative workshop with Lara Atallah, we'll reflect on and write about the apocalypse: how the end of one life or world opens space to imagine the next, and how we contend with destruction & renewal through poetry.
Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/i...
Don’t miss your last chance to explore writing your truth and revision in these workshops with @starrdavispoet.bsky.social and @taraskurtu.bsky.social that have deadlines this week ⏳https://brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
08.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: The love poem—for many of us, it was our portal into poetry. In this six-week, in-person workshop with @ds-waldman.bsky.social, we'll endeavor toward a more vast & surprising understanding of the love poem as a mode. Register by February 8! brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/e...
07.02.2026 21:00 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In this five-week, online workshop with Keith S. Wilson, we'll discuss a new kind of visual poetry each week, break down what is happening in the poem and try out the forms ourselves. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/v...
06.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this six-week, online workshop with @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, we'll examine how contemporary poets today are redefining the sonnet and write our own sonnets, including the double sonnet, the triple sonnet and finally, our own crown of sonnets. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
06.02.2026 00:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for the launch of @chiaradilello.bsky.social's debut collection, Childless Millennial, on Friday, February 20 at 144 Montague Street and via Zoom! Doors will open at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Ashna Ali will open for Di Lello. Book signing to follow. buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...
04.02.2026 22:00 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
This two-session, generative online workshop with Emily Sernaker will be devoted to close-reading groundbreaking writers from the past—with generative writing prompts based on those readings tailored to help writers of the present. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/d...
04.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I know of waterfalls, the long, golden
tresses of little girls singing for men
and death to thieves who dream
of pillaging the treasures of a land
— Our #PoetoftheWeek, Magdalena Arias Vásquez
brooklynpoets.org/community/po...
Don’t miss your last chance to explore first books, the poetics of context and the love poem in these workshops with Gbenga Adesina, @omotarajames.bsky.social and @ds-waldman.bsky.social that have deadlines this week ⏳ brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
01.02.2026 22:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us in congratulating our Brooklyn Poets Fellows for the winter 2026 season! 🎉 Congrats as well to our finalists! 👏👏 mailchi.mp/brooklynpoet...
31.01.2026 20:00 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
In this five-week, online workshop with b ferguson, we'll explore what revenge is, how it relates to systemic oppression and the planet and how it can be wielded as a craft tool on the page and in the world.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/r...
In this six-week, online workshop with I.S. Jones, we'll tackle the fundamentals of versification and explore how rhythms in our common speech can be placed into metrical patterns as we explore the basics of meter, sound, structure and surprise.
Link to register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/b...
LAST CHANCE to register for this workshop with @lhiton.bsky.social! Sliding scale spots still available!
29.01.2026 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Explore the sonnet, blank verse, the apocalypse, interruption & the hometown with @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, @lara-atallah.bsky.social, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social & @geg2us.bsky.social! We also now have limited sliding scale seats. brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
28.01.2026 15:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Friday, Feb. 13 for our next Yawp workshop & open mic led by @lara-atallah.bsky.social! Atallah will lead a workshop on apocalyptic poetry drawn from her upcoming five-week workshop, "In the Beginning There Was the End." Get tickets: buytickets.at/brooklynpoet...
27.01.2026 22:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In this six-week, in-person workshop with Anthony Thomas Lombardi, we'll navigate the synchronous orbit that both our grief and our gratitude follow, using essays from Ross Gay's book Inciting Joy to incite our own joy and harvest hope from our hardships.
Link: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/t...
In this seven-week, generative online workshop with Omotara James, we’ll explore how context reveals meaning, locates the voice, and transforms the poem. Discover how the stories beneath your stories can expand what your poems are able to hold.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/p...
Don’t miss your last chance to explore modernist poetry, the oracular, and the list poem in these workshops with Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Lisa Hiton and dawn lonsinger that have deadlines this week ⏳ Learn more and register at: brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all
25.01.2026 16:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In this six-week, generative online workshop with Gbenga Adesina, we’ll study the structures, forms, innovative experiments, styles and influence that make certain great first poetry books so unforgettable.
Register: brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/f...
