This workshop centers the epistolary form—poems structured as letters—as a way to contend with distance, absence, and desire. We’ll read and discuss poems that address the absent and the abstract, negotiate intimacy and distance, and bridge the self with the imagined or unreachable. Through generative and collaborative exercises, participants will toil in the gap between sender and receiver while exploring absence and presence. 

APRIL 05 2025, 12:00 - 14:00 PST

$50 USD (with scholarship options)

From holes we came and into holes we shall return. The hole is the ultimate abject, the transgressable boundary between the self and itself, other selves, the world, the divine. Come join us in reading various hole poems and writing your own hole poems, assisted by holesome prompts. Doors, thresholds, portals, windows, Christ's side wound, gloryholes, manholes, orifices, sutures, slits, sinkholes, mouths, God-sized holes, punctures, ear canals. Let’s make some holes together! Hosted by Cass Garison & Ally Ang.

APRIL 13 2025, 12:00 - 14:00 PST

$15 (with scholarship options)

In this workshop, we will explore repetition, recursion, and the obsessive return to images, phrases, and ideas. We’ll examine with poetic incantation, insistence, and fixation through micro-lessons, readings, discussions, and generative exercises that encourage experimentation with recursive techniques and connection with our own instinctive rhythms. Prompts and lessons will invite us to build new repetitious tactics while indulging individual poetic obsession.

May 03 & 10 2025, 12:00 - 14:00 PST

$80 USD (with scholarship options)