Virtual Workshop with The Poetry Society of New York: Summer Virtual Poetry Intensive: The Shared World

When: July 30– September 10, 2025 (Wednesdays, 6:30–8:30 PM EST)

Duration: 7 Weeks

Format: Virtual, via Zoom

Workshop Overview:

Welcome to PSNY’s Summer Virtual Intensive:“The Shared World”— a seven-week journey where you will delve into Intimacy, Address, and the Possibilities of the Second Person.

No poet writes alone. Every poetic act is a relational act—a voice motivated to emerge from the void to address the self, the beloved, the stranger, the reader, the collective, or the future. How do poems embody our need for entanglement and our experiences with alienation? Taking its title from a poem by Vivee Franis, in this course we’ll consider how playing with the second-person in our writing can reveal and reflect the complexity of our grief, rage, joy, and desire.

We’ll read poems by Aracelis Girmay, Danez Smith, Matthew Olzmann, Solmaz Sharif, and others. We’ll write poems that create opportunities for us to speak, and be spoken to, in new ways.

**No prior experience with theory or workshops is needed—just come excited and ready to learn.**