Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Dana Levin. Craft Class will run from 11 AM-1PM EST. Followed by a reading from 1:05 PM-1:20 PM.

Serious Play: This April Fool’s Day workshop will focus on play–the heart of any strong writing practice. We’ll start with Keats’ notion of negative capability, discuss associative logic, and start playing! My hope is that participants will come away refreshed and interested in generating new poems with zest. The workshop will end with a round of Japanese Renga.

Registration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on Friday, March 31st (the day before the craft class).

Click here to register

To join the class on Saturday, April 1st, go to the Eventbrite page where you registered and click on “Access link” (under “When and Where” and “Location.”

Dana Levin’s new book is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She the author of four other books of poetry, including Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016) and Sky Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Her poems and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, The Nation, Poetry, and Guesthouse, among other publications. Levin is a grateful recipient of many fellowships and awards, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, as well as from the Lannan, Rona Jaffe, Whiting, and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis and as faculty for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Office Hours Poetry Workshop is a community-based writing workshop for poets who show a demonstrated commitment to writing. The workshop fellowship culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. We welcome all poets, especially people of color, LGBTQ+, and those who are womxn-identified. Our Craft Classes are free and open to the public with RSVP.

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.