Office Hours Poetry Workshop
A community-based writing workshop for poets who show a demonstrated commitment to writing. We provide continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing. The workshop culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work.
We especially welcome poets of color, LGBTQ+, and those who are womxn-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance, writing instructors, who continue to thrive in the margins of academia.
The workshop fellowship meets every two weeks following the fall and spring academic calendar with optional sessions like book club and generative write ins. We charge zero fees to join. Interested writers should submit 6 pages of work to be reviewed by the workshop facilitator sarahmariesala@gmail.com or drop us a line to learn more!
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
Spring 2025
Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Latif Askia Ba
Thursday, May 15, 2025
6:30 PM-8:45 PM
Disabling Word: What is disability/crip poetics and how is it useful to our poetry? Together we will read through a diverse range of disabled poets to highlight the seemingly invisible assumptions made by normative language and ways of cripping language to create realities that exist outside of the hegemonic imagination. You will have a chance to write with the guide of prompts and to share your work, insights, and experiences.
Latif Askia Ba is a choreic poet from Brooklyn, NY. Dancing in and out of various forms, he tries again and again to realize the music of the disabled body-mind-universe. You can find his work in Poetry Magazine, Poem-A-Day, and many other publications. His newest collection, The Choreic Period, was published by Milkweed Editions.
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Fall 2004
Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Jenny Xie
Ekphrastic Encounters: Together, we’ll read through an invigorating range of poems that emerge from varied approaches to ekphrasis and generate our own ekphrastic responses. What transpires in the movement between one medium and another? What gets animated in the tensions between the spatial dimension of a visual artwork and the temporal dimension of a poem? How can ekphrastic writing proceed as a mode of inquiry, a manner of investigating perception and process?
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Summer 2024
Virtual Book Publishing Class with Trevor Ketner
Wednesdays, in July (10th, 17th, 24th, 31st) from 6:00 PM-8:00 PM ET.
“So, I’ve Written Something; Now What?: Shaping, Polishing, and the Publishing Process.”
Award-winning poet, editor, critic, and experienced publishing professional Trevor Ketner will lead a four-part course designed for participants to workshop an excerpt from a larger manuscript, as well as provide timely insight into editorial and submission processes. Office Hours Fellows and alumni are welcome to enroll (sold out). __________________________________________
Spring 2024 POETRY FELLOWS
Dina Abdulhadi
Abba Belgrave
Linda Harris-Dolan
Ryan Dzelzkalns
Ashley Harris
Emily Alta Hockaday (Craft Class Coordinator)
J. Freeborn
Carrie Hohmann-Campbell
Sarah M. Sala
Shakeema Smalls
Noel Sikorski
Avia Tadmor
POETRY FELLOWS ALUMNI
Mary Block
Michael Broder
Marty Correia
Danielle Cowan
Laura Cresté
Sharon Her
Aimee Herman
Sophie Herron
Jen Levitt
Jimena Lucero
Christine Malvasi
Paco Marquez
Caitlin McDonnell
Holly Mitchell
Maddie Mori
James Funjinami Moore
Sanjana Nair
Elsbeth Pancrazi
Dacota Pariseau
Megan Pinto
Vanessa Rodriguez Moody
Sahar Romani
Victoria Sanz
Irene Villasenor
Yanyi
PREVIOUS CRAFT INSTRUCTORS
Catherine Barnett
Mariam Bazeed
Alison Blevins
Jericho Brown
Wo Chan
Chen Chen
Kai Coggin
CAConrad
Shira Erlichman
Joan Kwon Glass
Roy Guzmán
Kimiko Hahn
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
JP Howard
Jen Hyde
Omotara James
Patricia Spears Jones
Trevor Ketner
Myung Mi Kim
Dana Levin
Gregory Pardlo
Paco Márquez
C. Quintana
Crystal Valentine
Aldrin Valdez
Yanyi
Nicole Wallace
Candace Williams
Laura Esther Wolfson
Read a recap of Aldrin Valdez’s Craft Class here.
Check out a recap of the 2017 Office Hours Spring Showcase here.