Poem-Making Sessions and Workshops


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, March 30, 2024.

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, the Netherlands, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, March 30, 2024
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on Earth—session is remote via Zoom.
Tuition: 
$30-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) Register page gives you option to pay via Paypal, Venmo, or debit/credit card.

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, March 16, 2024.

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, the Netherlands, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, March 16, 2024
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on Earth—session is remote via Zoom.
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, March 2, 2024.

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, the Netherlands, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, March 2, 2024
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on Earth—session is remote via Zoom.
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

The Gatherings— 6-Week Poetry Workshop– Thursday Evenings, February 29-April 4, 2024 from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM.

A couple spaces left

Please join me for this special 6-week Poetry Seminar and Workshop to be held on 6 consecutive Thursdays from February 29 to April 4. This session will be for serious poets or those who want to really immerse themselves in poetry for a few weeks: writers who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend winter evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400

Dates: 6 Thursday Evenings–February 29-April 4 
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, February 17, 2024.  

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, the Netherlands, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, February 17, 2024
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on Earth—session is remote via Zoom.
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

–Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

 


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, February 3, 2024.  

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, the Netherlands, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, February 3, 2024
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on Earth—session is remote via Zoom.
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

–Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

 

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, January 20, 2024.  

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, the Netherlands, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, January 20, 2024
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on Earth—session is remote via Zoom.
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

–Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

Clandestine Poem-Making Event–January 7, 2023

This sessions is free but I have to limit to ≈20 participants. If you’re interested, let me know soon.

This special Wallson Glass event–only the second in-person event since 2020–will take place in Manhattan at a large art museum on Saturday afternoon, January 13. The event is free. Since information cannot be shared publicly, please email Wallson Glass for details. Once you have committed to coming, you will be given information regarding place and time. 

Date: Saturday, January 13
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Location: 
Email Wallson Glass through “Speak to Me” page or personal email address for location.
Tuition: 
This event is free.

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, January 6, 2024.      

Happy New Year! The First Poem-Making Session of 2024. Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, the Netherlands, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, January 6
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on Earth—session is remote via Zoom.
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Auroras of the New Year”— 6-Week Poetry Workshop– Thursday Evenings, January 4-February 8, 2024 from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM.

  *Begins tonight, but there is still one space available.*

Please join me for this special 6-week Poetry Seminar and Workshop to be held on 6 consecutive Thursdays on January 4, 11, 18, 25, and February 1 and 8.   This session will be for serious poets or those who want to really immerse themselves in poetry for a few weeks: writers who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend winter evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400

Dates: 6 Thursday Evenings–January 4, 11, 18, 25, and February 1 and 8. 
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

 

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, December 23, 2023.      

The last poem-making session of 2023! Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, the Netherlands, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, December 23
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on Earth—session is remote via Zoom.
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

–Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, December 9, 2023.      

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, December 9
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on Earth—session is remote via Zoom.
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

“Winter Visions”–Special 3-Week Poetry Workshop. Thursday Evenings December 7, 14, and 21, 2023–from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM.   

There are a few spaces left.

Please join me for this special 3-week Poetry Seminar and Workshop–the last of 2023–which will meet on December 7, 14, and 21st.  This session will be for serious poets or those who want to really immerse themselves in poetry for a few weeks: writers who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend winter evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $200

Dates: 3 Thursday Evenings–December 7, 14, and 21, 2023
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

 


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, November 25, 2023.      

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, November 25
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, November 11, 2023.      

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, November 11
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, October 28, 2023.      

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, October 28
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance


Dreams in Deep Autumn: A Poetry Workshop —  Six Weeks, October 19-November 30 (skipping the 23rd), 2023 Thursday Evenings from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM

Session almost full but there is still time to register!

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on October 19. This six-week session will be for serious poets: those who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend fall evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400
Register through PayPal on the “Register” page or you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–October 19-November 30 (skipping the 23rd), 2023
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

 


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, October 14, 2023.      

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, October 14
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, September 30, 2023.      

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, September 30
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, September 16, 2023.      

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, September 16
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.) If you have any issues with PayPal on the Register page, you can also Venmo at Geoffrey-Nutter-1. Please make sure to include your email address and name! 

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance


Autumn Constellations: A Poetry Workshop —
  Six Weeks, September 7-October 12, 2023 Thursday Evenings from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on September 7. This six-week session will be for serious poets: those who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend fall evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–September 7-October 12, 2023
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

 


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, September 2, 2023.      

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, September 2
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.)

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, August 19, 2023.      

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, August 19
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.)

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, August 5, 2023.      

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, August 5
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.)

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, July 29, 2023.       SESSION CANCELLED

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, July 29
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.)

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance


The August Gathering: A Poetry Workshop — Four Weeks, August 3-24, 2023.  Thursday Evenings from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM.   

ONE SPACE LEFT

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on August 3. This four-week session will be for serious poets or those who want to really immerse themselves in poetry for a few weeks: writers who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend fall evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $260
Please contact me for Venmo registration info.

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–August 3-August 24, 2023
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

 

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, July 8, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, July 8
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.)

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

 

“The Anatomy of Summer” Special 3-Week Poetry Workshop. Thursday Evenings from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM.   

*****Session Full–Check Back in July for Late-Summer Session*****

Please join me for this special 3-week Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will meet on June 22, June 29, and July 6.  This session will be for serious poets or those who want to really immerse themselves in poetry for a few weeks: writers who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend summer evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $200

Dates: 3 Thursday Evenings–June 22, June 29, July 6, 2023
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

 


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, June 24
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.)

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

 

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, June 10
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.)

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, May 27
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.)

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, May 13
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available.)

Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 


The Door Into Summer
: A Poetry Workshop —  Six Weeks, May 11-June 15, 2023   Thursday Evenings from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM.   

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on May 11th. This six-week session will be for serious poets or those who want to really immerse themselves in poetry for a few weeks: writers who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend fall evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–May 11-June 15, 2023
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

 

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, April 29
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, April 15
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, April 1
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


The Waters of March: A Poetry Workshop —
  Six Weeks, March 23-April 27, 2023   Thursday Evenings from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM.   

Session Full–Registration Closed. Please contact me or check back for next session.

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on March 23rd. This six-week session will be for serious poets or those who want to really immerse themselves in poetry for a few weeks: writers who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend fall evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–March 23, 2022-April 27, 2023
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Please note that there will be no session on March 11–sessions resume on the 18th.

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, March 18
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


The Waters of March: A Poetry Workshop —
  Six Weeks, March 23-April 27, 2023   Thursday Evenings from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM.   

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on March 23rd. This six-week session will be for serious poets or those who want to really immerse themselves in poetry for a few weeks: writers who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend fall evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–March 23, 2022-April 27, 2023
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, February 25, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, February 25
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Pakistan, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, February 11
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. Scholarships for those truly in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code within 24 hours of registering. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions–
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, January 28
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page. Scholarships for those in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

International Poetry Writing Workshop–Excursions into the New Year–
Saturday, January 14, 2023

Three hours of poetry writing experiments with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. 

Date: Saturday, January 14
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page. Scholarships for those in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Clandestine Poem-Making Event–January 7, 2023

This sessions is free but I have to limit to ≈20 participants. If you’re interested, let me know soon.

The first Wallson Glass event of the year–and the first in-person event since 2020–will take place in Manhattan at an art museum on Saturday afternoon, January 7. The event is free. Since information cannot be shared publicly, please email Wallson Glass for details. Once you have committed to coming, you will be given information regarding place and time. 

Date: Saturday, January 7
Time: Afternoon
Location: 
Email Wallson Glass through “Speak to Me” page or personal email address for location.
Tuition: 
This event is free.

Minds of Winter: A Poetry Workshop —  Six Weeks, January 12-February 9, 2023   Thursday Evenings from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM.   

Please note new start date, January 12, 2023

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on January 12. This six-week session will be for serious poets or those who want to really immerse themselves in poetry for a few weeks: writers who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend fall evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–January 12, 2022-February 16, 2023
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

International Poetry Writing Workshop–“Poetry on the Eve of the New Year”–
Saturday, December 31, 2022   

Please note that this session will begin at 1:00pm ET

Three hours of poetry writing experiments on the last day of the year with a group of people from all over the world who love poetry–people like you, who want to write it, learn about it, experiment with it, build new worlds with it, find new selves within it, re-imagine time and consciousness through it. 

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where poets could get together and write for an afternoon in an atmosphere of great energy, imagination, and good will. In 2020, Wallson Glass went remote–participants now come from all over: recent sessions have gathered together poets and writers from Iran, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Qatar, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits who come together to live the life of the imagination. 

For three hours, we will set out on “Excursions” with poetry…excursions into the exciting and often strange territories of language and consciousness. And we will write our way from the old year into the new….

Date: Saturday, December 31
Time: 1:00pm-4:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page. Scholarships for those in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

Wallson Glass welcomes donations to help fund scholarships

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 


International Poetry Writing Workshop–“Excursions 6”–Saturday, December 17, 2022   

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Excursions–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

And participants come from all over–recent sessions gathered poets and writers from Iran, Turkey, Finland, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits, coming together to live the life of the imagination. Come and make something surprising and beautiful with a group of like-minded people from all over the world!

Date: Saturday, December 17
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page. Scholarships for those in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 


International Poetry Writing Workshop–“Excursions 5”–Saturday, December 3, 2022   

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Excursions–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

And participants come from all over–recent sessions gathered poets and writers from Iran, Turkey, Finland, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits, coming together to live the life of the imagination. Come and make something surprising and beautiful with a group of like-minded people from all over the world!

Date: Saturday, December 3
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page. Scholarships for those in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

International Poetry Writing Workshop–“Excursions 4”–Saturday, November 19, 2022   

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Excursions–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

And participants come from all over–recent sessions gathered poets and writers from Iran, Finland, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits, coming together to live the life of the imagination. Come and make something surprising and beautiful with a group of like-minded people from all over the world!

Date: Saturday, November 19
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page. Scholarships for those in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

International Poetry Writing Workshop–“Excursions 3”–Saturday, November 5, 2022   

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Excursions–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

And participants come from all over–recent sessions gathered poets and writers from Iran, Finland, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits, coming together to live the life of the imagination. Come and make something surprising and beautiful with a group of like-minded people from all over the world!

Date: Saturday, November 5
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page. Scholarships for those in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

International Poetry Writing Workshop–“Excursions 3”–Saturday, October 22, 2022   Registration will close tonight at 11pm Eastern Time

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Excursions–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

And participants come from all over–recent sessions gathered poets and writers from Iran, Finland, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits, coming together to live the life of the imagination. Come and make something surprising and beautiful with a group of like-minded people from all over the world!

Date: Saturday, October 22
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page. Scholarships for those in need are available. Those who pay more than $50 will be helping to fund scholarships for people for whom personal circumstances and currency exchange rates make tuition a hardship. They will receive a small gift in gratitude.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


October Ingatherings: A Poetry Workshop —
  Six Weeks, October 20-December 1, 2022 (skipping Thanksgiving) Thursday Evenings from 6:00-9:00pm ET.  via ZOOM.   Registration Closed. New session will begin in December. Please check back. 

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on October 20. This six-week session will be for serious poets or those who want to really immerse themselves in poetry for a few weeks: writers who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend fall evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–October 20-December 1, 2022
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems by October 15 to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

 

International Poetry Writing Workshop–“Excursions 2”–Saturday, October 8, 2022

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Excursions–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

And participants come from all over–recent sessions gathered poets and writers from Iran, Finland, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits, coming together to live the life of the imagination. Come and make something surprising and beautiful with a group of like-minded people from all over the world!

Date: Saturday, October 8
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page. Scholarships for those in need are available.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Excursions–-A Poem-Making Workshop–Saturday, September 24, 2022

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours straight in a supportive but intense atmosphere of quiet commotion. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Excursions–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook with material. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

And participants come from all over–recent sessions gathered poets and writers from Iran, Belgium, Nepal, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits, coming together to live the life of the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, September 24
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


The Gathering–-Event Session #2–Saturday, September 17, 2022

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours straight in a supportive but intense atmosphere of quiet commotion. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Invitations–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook with material. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

And participants come from all over–recent sessions gathered poets and writers from New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits, coming together to live the life of the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, September 17
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


The Gathering–-Event Session #2–Saturday, September 3, 2022

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours straight in a supportive but intense atmosphere of quiet commotion. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Invitations–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook with material. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

And participants come from all over–recent sessions gathered poets and writers from New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits, coming together to live the life of the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, September 3
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 


Autumn Constellations: A Poetry Workshop —
  Six Weeks, September 1-October 6, 2022 Thursday Evenings from 6:00-8:30pm ET.  via ZOOM

This session is full. The next session will begin in mid-October. Please check back for announcement soon.

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on September 1. This six-week session will be for serious poets: those who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend fall evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–September 1-October 6, 2022
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems by August 26 to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.


The Gathering–-Event Session #1–Saturday, August 20, 2022

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours straight in a supportive but intense atmosphere of quiet commotion. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Invitations–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook with material. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

And participants come from all over–The most recent session gathered poets and writers from New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, England, Canada, China, and every state in the United States, all writing together in a community of kindred spirits, coming together to live the life of the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, August 20
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Invitations to Invention–-Event Session #49–Saturday, August 13, 2022

Registration for this session is closed. Registration for the August 20 session will open Sunday, August 14, at 12:00pm Eastern Time (check your time zone, please).

Three hours of poem-making, guided by Geoffrey Nutter. Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, August 13
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Invitations to Invention–-Event Session #48–Saturday, August 6, 2022

This session is now at capacity. Please check back—there will be a session next Saturday, August 13, and registration will open for that on Sunday. Thank you!

Three hours of poem-making, guided by Geoffrey Nutter. Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, August 6
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Invitations to Invention–-Event Session #47–Saturday, July 23, 2022

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: bi-weekly writing sessions–not a workshop, but rather a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours straight in a very supportive but intense atmosphere of quiet commotion. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Invitations–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook with material. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, July 23
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Invitations to Invention–-Event Session #46–Saturday, July 9, 2022

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: bi-weekly writing sessions–not a workshop, but rather a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours straight in a very supportive but intense atmosphere of quiet commotion. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events”–or Invitations–rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook with material. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, July 9
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Triumphs of Invention–-Event Session #45–Saturday, June 25, 2022

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: bi-weekly writing sessions–not a workshop, but rather a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours straight in a very supportive but intense atmosphere of quiet commotion. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events” rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook with material. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, June 25
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

Triumphs of Invention–-Event Session #44–Saturday, June 18, 2022

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: bi-weekly writing sessions–not a workshop, but rather a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours straight in a very supportive but intense atmosphere of quiet commotion. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events” rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook with material. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, June 18
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Doors Into Summer: A Poetry Workshop —
  Six Weeks, July 7-August 11, 2022 Thursday Evenings from 6:00-8:30pm ET.  via ZOOM

This session is completely FULL. You can email me to be put on the wait list. The next workshop will begin in early September. You can register at any time (info and announcement to be posted soon)

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on July 7. This six-week session will be for serious poets: those who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend summer evenings in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–July 7-August 11,  2022
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: Sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems by June 21 to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.

Triumphs of Invention–-Event Session #43–Saturday, June 4, 2022

In 2013 Geoffrey Nutter inaugurated a series of seminars called Wallson Glass: bi-weekly writing sessions–not a workshop, but rather a place where a group of poets get together and write for three hours straight in a very supportive but intense atmosphere of quiet commotion. Poets are given a series of brief ideas and constraints–Wallson Glass likes to call them “Inventions” or “Events” rather than “exercises”–that last a few minutes each, with the aim of filling a notebook with material. Participants have included past and present MFA students, published poets, professors, filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and beginning poets who want to simply write more or discover ways of overcoming “writer’s block,” a state that Wallson Glass is devoted to helping poets and writers overcome.

Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, June 4
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Triumphs of Invention–-Event Session #42–Saturday, May 7, 2022

Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, May 7
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

Triumphs of Invention–-Event Session #41–Saturday, April 23, 2022

Keats’s long poem “Endymion” was the result of what he called his “trial of invention.” He set himself the task of writing four thousand lines of sustained beauty and intensity, not knowing where exactly it would lead him. In the process of this hard work, Keats would transform himself into poet.

Taking Keats’s ambition as a model, we will engage in our own attempt to create beautiful work through a series of seemingly arbitrary “trials.” Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, April 23
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Triumphs of Invention–-Event Session #40–Saturday, April 2, 202

Keats’s long poem “Endymion” was the result of what he called his “trial of invention.” He set himself the task of writing four thousand lines of sustained beauty and intensity, not knowing where exactly it would lead him. In the process of this hard work, Keats would transform himself into poet.

Taking Keats’s ambition as a model, we will engage in our own attempt to create beautiful work through a series of seemingly arbitrary “trials.” Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, April 2
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 


Emergence–-Event Session #39–Saturday, March 19, 2022

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, March 19
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Building Worlds: A Poetry Workshop —
  Six Weeks, April 21-June 2 (no session on 4/28), 2022 Thursday Evenings from 6:00-8:30

Session Full–Please Check Back in Summer for September Workshop Dates

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on April 28. This six-week session will be for serious poets: those who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. The workshop’s only guiding theme is poetry itself and wherever talk about it leads us. It will consist of workshop and critique; in addition, we will read poetry and discuss craft among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country and to have work published in journals. Spend the spring in a welcoming and productive atmosphere.

Tuition: $400 
Students: $350

* Tuition includes a private meeting, conducted either via Zoom or in person, your choice. 

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–April 28-June 2,  2022
Time: 6:00-8:30 pm.
Location: Due to continuing uncertainty regarding variants of Covid, sessions will be held remotely, via Zoom. But this will allow poets to join us from anywhere.  

**To apply, please send work sample of 3 poems by April 14 to wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com. You will be contacted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact Geoffrey Nutter at wallsonglasspoetry@gmail.com or through the “Speak to Me” page.


Event Session #38–Saturday, March 5, 2022

In a day of poem-making experiments, we will strive, as Walter Pater wrote in his study of the Renaissance, “to be independent of the mere intelligence” and “get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material.” To do this, we will avail ourselves of an array of materials: technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books.

The aim is not to make finished poems or to “workshop” or try to perfect things we’ve written in the past; but rather to make something happen in the moment as it passes, for that moment’s sake. But of course we will leave the session with a document of those moments–the beginnings of poems.

As always, it will be a day of intense and amazing poem-making.

Date: Saturday, March 5
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 


Passing Moments–-Event Session #37–Saturday, February 19, 2022

In a day of poem-making experiments, we will strive, as Walter Pater wrote in his study of the Renaissance, “to be independent of the mere intelligence” and “get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material.” To do this, we will avail ourselves of an array of materials: technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books.

The aim is not to make finished poems or to “workshop” or try to perfect things we’ve written in the past; but rather to make something happen in the moment as it passes, for that moment’s sake. But of course we will leave the session with a document of those moments–the beginnings of poems.

As always, it will be a day of intense and amazing poem-making.

Date: Saturday, February 19, 2:00-5:00pm
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 


Passing Moments–-Event Session #36–Saturday, February 5, 2022

In a day of poem-making experiments, we will strive, as Walter Pater wrote in his study of the Renaissance, “to be independent of the mere intelligence” and “get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material.” To do this, we will avail ourselves of an array of materials: technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books.

The aim is not to make finished poems or to “workshop” or try to perfect things we’ve written in the past; but rather to make something happen in the moment as it passes, for that moment’s sake. But of course we will leave the session with a document of those moments–the beginnings of poems.

As always, it will be a day of intense and amazing poem-making.

Date: Saturday, February 5, 2:00-5:00pm
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 


Passing Moments–-Event Session #35–Saturday, January 22, 2022

In a day of poem-making experiments, we will strive, as Walter Pater wrote in his study of the Renaissance, “to be independent of the mere intelligence” and “get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material.” To do this, we will avail ourselves of an array of materials: technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books.

The aim is not to make finished poems or to “workshop” or try to perfect things we’ve written in the past; but rather to make something happen in the moment as it passes, for that moment’s sake. But of course we will leave the session with a document of those moments–the beginnings of poems.

As always, it will be a day of intense and amazing poem-making.

Date: Saturday, January 22, 2:00-5:00pm
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

Passing Moments–-Event Session #34–Saturday, January 8, 2022

“Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence, to become a matter of pure perception, to get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material…”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.”

Two quotes from Walter Pater’s The Renaissance. 

In a day of poem-making experiments, we will strive “to be independent of the mere intelligence” and “get rid of its responsibilities to its subject or material.” To do this, we will avail ourselves of an array of materials: technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books.

The aim is not to make finished poems or to “workshop” or try to perfect things we’ve written in the past; but rather to make something happen in the moment as it passes, for that moment’s sake. But of course we will leave the session with a document of those moments–the beginnings of poems.

As always, it will be a day of intense and amazing poem-making.

Date: Saturday, January 8, 2:00-5:00pm
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Through Doorways–-Event Session #34–Saturday, December 18, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, December 18, 2:00-5:00pm
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Monuments, Cameos, Panoramas: A Day of Ekphrasis–-Event Session #34–Saturday, December 4, 2021

In a day of poem-making experiments, a focus will be on challenging and extending the meaning of “ekphrasis” by responding to works of visual art, cinema, and music, as well as objects in nature and the world around us. We will avail ourselves of technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. As always, it will be a day of intense and amazing poem-making.

Date: Saturday, December 4, 2:00-5:00pm
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

 

Making Worlds–Events Session #32: A Poem-Making Session    November 20, 2021

In one of Ursula Le Guin’s Orsinian Tales, a composer asks himself the question “What good is music?” The story ends with his meditation on this question and its strange answer: “To the world and its states and armies and factories and leaders, music says, ‘You are irrelevant’; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, ‘Listen.’”

To the question that might haunt us at one time or another–“what good is poetry?” –we can offer the same answer: poetry stands as a rebuke to “states and armies and factories and leaders…” It asks us to “listen”…even as we speak. It is an answer that challenges our very way of framing the question.

On this Saturday afternoon, we will see what happens when dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in the world in and through the imagination.

Date: Saturday, November 20, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #31: A Poem-Making Session    
November 6, 2021

William Carlos Williams famously called poems “small machines made out of words.” It’s an apt comparison–but only to a point. If they are machines, they are not like any machines that we know in this world: not made for a purpose; resulting from a kind of organic growth rather than from manufacture; able to be destroyed and put back together again in new ways; sometimes puzzling and difficult to fathom; constructed not out of metal and plastic, but rather “esemplastic”–the word Coleridge coined to mean the unifying power of the imagination. These are “machines” that we construct–not knowing in advance what they will look like or what they will do–in order to bring something beautiful, surprising, and perhaps even troubling into the world.

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, November 6, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #30: A Poem-Making Session    October 23, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, October 23, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #29: A Poem-Making Session    October 9, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, October 9, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

 


The World in Phases #28: A Poem-Making Session    September 25, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, September 25, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

 


The World in Phases #27: A Poem-Making Session    September 11, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, September 11, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

The World in Phases #26: A Poem-Making Session    August 28, 2021

Please note date change!

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, August 28, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #25: A Poem-Making Session    August 7, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, August 7, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

The World in Phases #24: A Poem-Making Session    July 24, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, July 24, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

The World in Phases #23: A Poem-Making Session    July 10, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, July 10, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #22: A Poem-Making Session    June 19, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, June 19, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

COMING THIS SUMMER–3rd Annual Wandering Metropolitaniana: Poem-making at the Met Museum

Strange mirrored eggs made of jewels; luxurious rococo bedrooms from the 18th century that seem like incubators for nightmares; ancient vessels fired with beautiful glazes; sculptures of marble or stainless steel; Islamic tapestries; Flemish portraits from the 17th century; all manner of treasures and obsessions of the human imagination. What does Futurist sculpture have in common with a French baroque porcelain Maltese dog or a harpsichord or a giant standing Buddha? These are all dreams that have been bodied forth in refractory materials to transform the otherwise purely utilitarian lives we struggle to live into something beautiful. In this very special free Wallson Glass session, poets will be given packets with instructions that will send them to various parts of the museum to make poems in response and/or collaboration with objects. Like all of our sessions, it’s an experiment: I’m curious to see where it leads.

Date and Time: This summer, date to be announced soon.

Tuition and Registration: The event is free, but please contact Wallson Glass and RSVP  in order for materials to be ready for you.
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art


The World in Phases #21: A Poem-Making Session    June 5, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #20: A Poem-Making Session    May 22, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, May 22, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #19: A Poem-Making Session    May 8, 2021

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, May 8, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #18: A Poem-Making Session    April 24, 2021

William Carlos Williams famously called poems “small machines made out of words.” It’s an apt comparison–but only to a point. If they are machines, they are not like any machines that we know in this world: not made for a purpose; resulting from a kind of organic growth rather than from manufacture; able to be destroyed and put back together again in new ways; sometimes puzzling and difficult to fathom; constructed not out of metal and plastic, but rather “esemplastic”–the word Coleridge coined to mean the unifying power of the imagination. These are “machines” that we construct–not knowing in advance what they will look like or what they will do–in order to bring something beautiful, surprising, and perhaps even troubling into the world.

Three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, April 24, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #17: A Poem-Making Session    April 10, 2021

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. These began with the “Twenty Poems in a Day” day-long writing sessions. The idea was to create a space for poets and other artists and writers that was not a traditional “workshop”, but rather a place where we would simply engage in an afternoon of writing together. When the pandemic lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” with kindred spirits in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Sessions consist of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, April 10, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #16: A Poem-Making Session    March 27, 2021

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. These began with the “Twenty Poems in a Day” day-long writing sessions. The idea was to create a space for poets and other artists and writers that was not a traditional “workshop”, but rather a place where we would simply engage in an afternoon of writing together. When the pandemic lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” with kindred spirits in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Sessions consist of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, March 27, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #15: A Poem-Making Session    March 13, 2021

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. These began with the “Twenty Poems in a Day” day-long writing sessions. The idea was to create a space for poets and other artists and writers that was not a traditional “workshop”, but rather a place where we would simply engage in an afternoon of writing together. When the pandemic lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” with kindred spirits in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Sessions consist of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, March 13, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #14: A Poem-Making Session    February 27, 2021

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

Please Translate the Following:

ላለፉት በርካታ ዓመታት ገጣሚዎች የግጥም ድልን እና ቅinationትን ለማክበር በዎልሰን መስታወት ስብሰባ ሲያደርጉ ቆይተዋል ፡፡ እነዚህ የተጀመሩት “በአንድ ቀን ውስጥ ሃያ ግጥሞችን” በቀን-ረጅም የጽሑፍ ስብሰባዎች ነበር ፡፡ ሀሳቡ ለገጣሚያን እና ለሌሎች አርቲስቶች እና ደራሲያን ባህላዊ “ወርክሾፕ” ያልሆነ ፣ ከዚያ በቀላሉ ከሰዓት በኋላ በጋራ በመፃፍ የምንሳተፍበት ቦታ መፍጠር ነበር ፡፡ የወረርሽኙ መቆለፊያ ሲጀመር ዎልሰን መስታወት በዞም በኩል በነፃ ወደ ክፍለ-ጊዜዎች መምራት ተሸጋገረ እና ለ 18 ሳምንታት ገጣሚዎች በአሜሪካ ፣ በአውሮፓ ፣ በመካከለኛው ምስራቅ እና በእስያ ዙሪያ ለሁለት ሰዓታት ያህል አጭር የግጥም ሙከራ ሙከራዎች ተሰበሰቡ ፡፡ ግጥሞችን በሚያከናውንበት ግን ጸጥ ባለ ትርምስ ውስጥ አንድ ሰው ከዘመዶች መናፍስት ጋር “ብቻውን” ሊሆን የሚችልበት የደራሲያን ማህበረሰብ። ክፍለ-ጊዜዎችን በመደመር ሂደት ውስጥ የቋንቋ እና የአስተሳሰብ ውህደቶችን ለመፍጠር በርካታ ጽሑፎችን በመጠቀም የሦስት ሰዓታት ሙከራዎችን ይጽፋል። ወደ “የእውነታ ክምችት” የእኛ የቀን ሥራ-በየትኛው ቋንቋ ፣ አስተሳሰብ ፣ እና ሕልም ያልተለመዱ እና ብሩህ ውህዶች በተፃፉ ሙከራዎች ላይ ለመሳተፍ; እንደ ገጣሚዎች እና የሰው ልጆች በነገሮች እና ሀሳቦች ዓለም ውስጥ የመኖር ልምዳችንን እንደገና ለመደርደር ፡፡ አንዳንድ ልምምዶች የድሮ ቴክኒካዊ መጽሔቶችን ፣ በዓለም ዙሪያ ካሉ ሙዚየሞች የተገኙ የጥበብ ምስሎችን ፣ ያልተለመዱ ጸጥ ያሉ ፊልሞችን ፣ የማይመረጡ ጽሑፎችን ማግኘት የምንችልባቸው በድር ላይ እጅግ አስደናቂ የሆኑ የድምፅ ፣ የምስል እና የጽሑፍ ጥቅሞችን ሊወስዱ ይችላሉ ፡፡ ከሌሎች ነገሮች መካከል የሸክላ ዕቃዎች ፣ ብርጭቆ ፣ የጥንት የጭስ ማውጫ ሳጥኖች እና ሰዓቶች ምስሎች; የግንባታ ገንቢዎች ማማዎች ፣ የጨካኞች መዋቅሮች ፣ እንግዳ የሆኑ የውስጥ ክፍሎች ፣ ቅጥ ያላቸው ፍርስራሾች ፣ የቪክቶሪያ ብሪክ-ብራክ እና ጥንታዊ መርከቦች; እና ሁሉም ዓይነት ያልተለመዱ መቃብሮች እና የሕልም መጽሐፍት። እናም በአንድ ቀን ውስጥ እንደፃፉት ሁሉ ይጽፋሉ ፡፡

Date: Saturday, February 27, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

The World in Phases #13: A Poem-Making Session    February 13, 2021

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. These began with the “Twenty Poems in a Day” day-long writing sessions. The idea was to create a space for poets and other artists and writers that was not a traditional “workshop”, but rather a place where we would simply engage in an afternoon of writing together. When the pandemic lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” with kindred spirits in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Sessions consist of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date: Saturday, February 13, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

 


The World in Phases #12: A Poem-Making Session

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. These began with the “Twenty Poems in a Day” day-long writing sessions. The idea was to create a space for poets and other artists and writers that was not a traditional “workshop”, but rather a place where we would simply engage in an afternoon of writing together. When the pandemic lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” with kindred spirits in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Sessions consist of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, January 23, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #11: A Poem-Making Session

The First Wallson Glass session of 2021.
For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. These began with the “Twenty Poems in a Day” day-long writing sessions. The idea was to create a space for poets and other artists and writers that was not a traditional “workshop”, but rather a place where we would simply engage in an afternoon of writing together. When the pandemic lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” with kindred spirits in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Sessions consist of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, January 9, 2021 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

 


The World in Phases #10: A Poem-Making Session

The last Wallson Glass session of 2020.
For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. These began with the “Twenty Poems in a Day” day-long writing sessions. The idea was to create a space for poets and other artists and writers that was not a traditional “workshop”, but rather a place where we would simply engage in an afternoon of writing together. When the lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” with kindred spirits in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Sessions consist of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, December 19, 2020 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

 

The World in Phases #9: A Poem-Making Session

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. When the lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

After a brief hiatus, we resumed these sessions: Each consists of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, December 5, 2020 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

 


The World in Phases #8: A Poem-Making Session

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. When the lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

After a brief hiatus, we resumed these sessions: Each consists of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, November 21, 2020 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

 


The World in Phases #7: A Poem-Making Session

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. When the lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

After a brief hiatus, we resumed these sessions: Each consists of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, November 7, 2020 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #6: A Poem-Making Session

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. When the lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

After a brief hiatus, we resumed these sessions: Each consists of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, October 24, 2020 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #5: A Poem-Making Session

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. When the lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

After a brief hiatus, we resumed these sessions: Each consists of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, October 10, 2020 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #4: A Poem-Making Session

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. When the lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

After a brief hiatus, we resumed these sessions: Each consists of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, September 26, 2020 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


The World in Phases #3: A Poem-Making Session

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. When the lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

After a brief hiatus, we resume these sessions: Each consists of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, September 5, 2020 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

The World in Phases #2: A Poem-Making Session

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. When the lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

After a brief hiatus, we resume these sessions: Each consists of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, August 22, 2020 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 

The World in Phases: A Poem-Making Session– #1

For the past several years, poets have been meeting at Wallson Glass to celebrate the triumph of poetry and the imagination. When the lockdown began, Wallson Glass shifted to conducting sessions for free via Zoom, and for 18 weeks poets gathered from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one could be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

After a brief hiatus, we resume these sessions on 8/8, a propitious number: Each session will consist of three hours of writing experiments using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to engage in writing experiments in which language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. Some exercises might take advantages of the incredible abundance of sound, image, and text on the Web, where we can avail ourselves of old technical journals, art images from museums around the world, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; images of, among other things, ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. 

Date: Saturday, August 8, 2020 
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm EST (You can drop in and out during this time)
Location:
Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 
Tuition: 
$25-$50 (This is a sliding scale. Students, etc. can pay anything in this range. If, however, anyone cannot afford this, please contact me on the “Speak to me…” page.)

To Join: Register on the “Register” page of this website. You will receive a Zoom code in the days prior to the meeting. 


Extraordinary Circumstances #18

ZOOM LINK:  https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94251388082

This will be the 18th in a series of free Wallson Glass Poem-making sessions that have taken place during the pandemic lockdown. These will end soon.

Join poets from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one can be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Date: Saturday, July 18 , 2020 
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

Donations of any amount can be made on the “register” page on this website.

NOTE: Tomorrow is the last free Saturday. 

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, July 18. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.


Extraordinary Circumstances #17

ZOOM LINK:  https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97577375282

This will be the 17th in a series of free Wallson Glass Poem-making sessions that have taken place during the pandemic lockdown. These will end soon.

Join poets from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one can be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Date: Saturday, July 11, 2020 
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

Donations of any amount can be made on the “register” page on this website.

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, July 11. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

Extraordinary Circumstances #16

ZOOM LINK:  https://nyu.zoom.us/j/96728907444

This will be the 16th in a series of free Wallson Glass Poem-making sessions that have taken place during the pandemic lockdown. These will end soon.

Join poets from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one can be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Date: Saturday, July 4, 2020 ATTN: THIS WILL BE AT 2:00PM 
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

Donations of any amount can be made on the “register” page on this website.

To Join: Check back here just before 2:00pm EST on Saturday, July 4. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

Extraordinary Circumstances #15

ZOOM LINK:  https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98102385888

This will be the 15th in a series of free Wallson Glass Poem-making sessions that have taken place during the pandemic lockdown. These will end soon.

Join poets from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one can be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Date: Saturday, June 27, 2020  3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

Donations of any amount can be made on the “register” page on this website.

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, June 20. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

Extraordinary Circumstances #14

ZOOM LINK:  https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98782557108

This will be the 14th in a series of free Wallson Glass Poem-making sessions that have taken place during the pandemic lockdown. These will end soon.

Join poets from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one can be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Date: Saturday, June 20, 2020  3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, June 20. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

Extraordinary Circumstances #13

ZOOM LINK:  https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95182327685

This will be the 13th in a series of free Wallson Glass Poem-making sessions that have taken place during the pandemic lockdown. These will end soon.

Join poets from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments–a community of writers with whom one can be “alone together” in the active but quiet commotion of making poems.

Date: Saturday, June 13, 2020  3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

Several people have asked about donations. They are certainly not required or expected, but you can donate any amount on the “register” page on this website.

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, June 13. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.


Extraordinary Circumstances #12

ZOOM LINK: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71486288134?pwd=YitmdVdnQXFUclVqdlNaWFFMWTJQdz09

This will be the 12th in a series of free Wallson Glass Poem-making sessions that have taken place during the pandemic lockdown. These will end soon.

Join poets from all around the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for two hours of brief poem-making experiments. 

Date: Saturday, June 6, 2020  3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

Several people have asked about donations. They are certainly not required or expected, but you can donate any amount on the “register” page on this website.

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, June 6. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

Extraordinary Circumstances #11

ZOOM LINK: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98811512746

Join Wallson Glass for a poetry meet up/poem-making session with fellow poets from around the world. Anyone can join. Two hours (or so) of writing experiments/exercises etc. 

Date: Saturday, May 30, 2020  3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

Several people have asked about donations. They are certainly not required or expected, but you can donate any amount on the “register” page on this website.

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, May 16. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

Extraordinary Circumstances #10–“THE SEANCE”: A Late Night Poem-making session

ZOOM LINK: 
https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94398053796

Wakings and fallings asleep in a late-night poem-making session. Hypnogogia, surrealist games, asemic signatories, exquisite self-collaborations, dream-ekphrasis, entopic phenomena, automatisms, deliriums….Yes, it’s late.
Two hours of poem-making experiments. Anyone can join. 

Date: Saturday, May 23, 11:59pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

Several people have asked about donations. They are not required or expected, but you can donate any amount on the “register” page on this website.

To Join: Check back here just before 11:58pm EST on Saturday, May 23. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

Extraordinary Circumstances #9

ZOOM LINK:  https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98812088591
Find here Saturday, 2:59pm EST

Join Wallson Glass for a brief poetry meet up/poem-making session with fellow poets from around the world. Anyone can join. An hour and a half (or so) of writing experiments/exercises etc. 

Date: Saturday, May 16, 3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

Several people have asked about donations. They are certainly not required or expected, but you can donate any amount on the “register” page on this website.

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, May 16. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

 


Extraordinary Circumstances #8

ZOOM LINK:
https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92919839264

Join Wallson Glass for a brief poetry meet up/poem-making session with fellow poets from around the world. Anyone can join. An hour and a half (or so) of writing experiments/exercises etc. 

Date: Saturday, May 9, 3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, May 9. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

Several people have asked about donations. They are certainly not required or expected, but you can donate any amount on the “register” page on this website. 

Extraordinary Circumstances #7

 

今天的诗歌会议的“Zoom Code”是:  https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91201470835

Join Wallson Glass for a brief poetry meet up/poem-making session with fellow poets from around the world. Anyone can join. An hour and a half (or so) of writing experiments/exercises etc. 

Date: Saturday, May 2, 3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, May 2. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

 

Extraordinary Circumstances #6

今天的诗歌会议的“Zoom Code”是:https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95925862838

15:00见

https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95925862838

Join Wallson Glass for a brief poetry meet up/poem-making session with fellow poets from around the world. Anyone can join. An hour and a half (or so) of writing experiments/exercises etc. 

Date: Saturday, April 25, 3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, April 25. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

 


Extraordinary Circumstances #5

Look here Saturday, just before 3pm EST   

Join Wallson Glass for a brief poetry meet up/poem-making session with fellow poets from around the world. Anyone can join. An hour and a half (or so) of writing experiments/exercises etc. 

Date: Saturday, April 18, 3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, April 18. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link.

Extraordinary Circumstances #4

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Join Wallson Glass for a brief poetry meet up/poem-making session with fellow poets from around the world. Anyone can join. An hour and a half (or so) of writing experiments/exercises etc. 

Date: Saturday, April 11, 3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, April 11. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link. 

Extraordinary Circumstances #3

To Join: Check back here just before 3:00pm EST on Saturday, April 4. The meeting link will be posted. You will be able to join meeting if you hit the link. 

Join Wallson Glass for a brief poetry meet up/poem-making session with fellow poets from around the world. Anyone can join. An hour and a half (or so) of writing experiments/exercises etc. 

Date: Saturday, April 4, 3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 

Extraordinary Circumstances #2
Meeting code: To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/sam-mdbx-zdy
Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 602-899-2964 and enter this PIN: 998 480 175#

 

Extraordinary Circumstances… #1  Saturday, March 21, 2020
Log-in Code to appear here and on Facebook just before 3:00pm

To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/shv-zktv-guz

Join Wallson Glass for a brief poetry meet up/poem-making session with fellow poets from around the world–

Date: Saturday, March 21, 3:00pm EST
Location: Anywhere on this blue-green Earth. 


Twenty Poems in a Day #56–Saturday, March 14, 2020   SESSION CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA VIRUS

In one of Ursula Le Guin’s Orsinian Tales, a composer asks himself the question “What good is music?” The story ends with his meditation on this question and its strange answer: “To the world and its states and armies and factories and leaders, music says, ‘You are irrelevant’; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, ‘Listen.’”

To the question that might haunt us at one time or another–“what good is poetry?” –we can offer the same answer: poetry stands as a rebuke to “states and armies and factories and leaders…” It asks us to “listen”…even as we speak. It is an answer that challenges our very way of framing the question.

On this Saturday afternoon, we will see what happens when dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in the world in and through the imagination.

Date and Time: Saturday, March 14, 2020, 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan


Twenty Poems in a Day #55–Saturday, February 22, 2020 

The life of the imagination–Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. We will avail ourselves of technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Wallson Glass Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, February 22, 2020, 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

Twenty Poems in a Day #54–Saturday, January 25, 2020   ****SESSION FULL***

The life of the imagination–Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. We will avail ourselves of technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Wallson Glass Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, January 25, 2020, 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.


Twenty Poems in a Day #53–Saturday, November 23, 2019

Wallson Glass is now back from a month of poem-making in China and is eager to host the next session in New York after this absence. Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, November 23, 2019, 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.


Twenty Poems in a Day #52–Saturday, September 28, 2019

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for a day of poem-making. Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, September 28, 2019, 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

Twenty Poems in a Day #51–Saturday, September 14, 2019

We might ask what we can do as poets in dark times. But as poets, we answer to no one: poetry only asks us to look at the world with a disinterested love and alertness, free of duty or obligation to anything but experiencing, observing, and recording how it feels to live in this world among its beings and the being that is our Other Self–the self that we come to experience in solitude.

And yet…poetry opens us to realms of the imagination and its power to point the way toward alternatives; it gives us intimations and intuitions of the Possible that ready us for action in the public square. As poets coming together in the fellowship of friends and kindred spirits to write poems, we can be reminded and encouraged in our devotion to the life of the imagination and its essential task of helping us live in the world.

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in the world in and through the imagination.

Date and Time: Saturday, September 14, 2019 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan


Strange Devices: Twenty Poems in a Day #50–Saturday, August 17, 2019

William Carlos Williams famously called poems “small machines made out of words.” It’s an apt comparison–but only to a point. If they are machines, they are not like any machines that we know in this world: not made for a purpose; resulting from a kind of organic growth rather than from manufacture; able to be destroyed and put back together again in new ways; sometimes puzzling and difficult to fathom; constructed not out of metal and plastic, but rather “esemplastic”–the word Coleridge coined to mean the unifying power of the imagination. These are “machines” that we construct–not knowing in advance what they will look like or what they will do–in order to bring something beautiful, surprising, and perhaps even troubling into the world.

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments in “constructing” such odd machines, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses. You will try to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, August 17, 2019 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan


Twenty Poems in a Day #49–Saturday, July 13, 2019    ***ONE SPACE LEFT***

On this Saturday afternoon, we will see what happens when dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in the world in and through the imagination.

Date and Time: Saturday, July 13, 2019 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

Wandering Metropolitaniana #2: Poem-making at the Metropolitan Museum of Art–Saturday, June 1, 2019

Strange mirrored eggs made of jewels; luxurious rococo bedrooms from the 18th century that seem like incubators for nightmares; ancient vessels fired with beautiful glazes; sculptures of marble or stainless steel; Islamic tapestries; Flemish portraits from the 17th century; all manner of treasures and obsessions of the human imagination. What does Futurist sculpture have in common with a French baroque porcelain Maltese dog or a harpsichord or a giant standing Buddha? These are all dreams that have been bodied forth in refractory materials to transform the otherwise purely utilitarian lives we struggle to live into something beautiful. In this very special free Wallson Glass session, poets will be given packets with instructions that will send them to various parts of the museum to make poems in response to and/or in collaboration with objects. Like all of our sessions, it’s an experiment: I’m curious to see where it leads.

Date and Time: Saturday, June 1, 1:00-5:00pm

Tuition and Registration: The event is free, but please contact Wallson Glass and RSVP  in order for materials to be ready for you. You can, optionally, make a small donation on the registration page to cover materials…but this is optional.
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art


Monuments, Cameos, Panoramas: A Day of Ekphrasis–Twenty Poems in a Day #48–Saturday, May 18, 2019

In a day of poem-making experiments, a focus will be on challenging and extending the meaning of “ekphrasis” by responding to works of visual art, cinema, and music, as well as objects in nature and the world around us. We will avail ourselves of technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. As always, it will be a day of intense and amazing poem-making.

Date and Time: Saturday, May 18, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

The Seance: Twenty Poems in a Night #4–Saturday, March 30, 2019–SESSION POSTPONED–PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER

The first SEANCE in over a year. Wakings and fallings asleep in a late-night poem-making session. Hypnogogia, surrealist games, asemic signatories, exquisite self-collaborations, dream-ekphrasis, entopic phenomena, automatisms, deliriums….Yes, it’s late. We will probably be too tired to write for four hours. But write for four hours we shall, in whatever half-dream state we might find ourselves entering. As always, we will avail ourselves of strange books about dreams, gems, birds, machines, mushrooms, weird mansions, water-miracles, clouds, clocks, bric-a-brac, comets, and endless other things sublunary and superlunary, in our efforts to experiment with language and rhythms in ways that will change our world and create new ones. Coffee will begin the evening, and as we progress, wine and fine whiskey will be served. The newest version of The Wallson Glass Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, March 30, 10:00pm-2:00am

Tuition: $100/ Students $75

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

Twenty Poems in a Day #47–Saturday, April 13, 2019

In one of Ursula Le Guin’s Orsinian Tales, a composer asks himself the question “What good is music?” The story ends with his meditation on this question and its strange answer: “To the world and its states and armies and factories and leaders, music says, ‘You are irrelevant’; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, ‘Listen.’”

To the question that might haunt us at one time or another–“what good is poetry?” –we can offer the same answer: poetry stands as a rebuke to “states and armies and factories and leaders…” It asks us to “listen”…even as we speak. It is an answer that challenges our very way of framing the question.

On this Saturday afternoon, we will see what happens when dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in the world in and through the imagination.

Date and Time: Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

Poetry Workshop April 4-May 16, 2019 (no session on April 25)

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on April 4. This six-week session will be for serious poets: those who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. We will read a lot of poetry, talk about a lot of poetry, write a lot of poetry among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country. Begin the spring in a welcoming and productive atmosphere: Wallson Glass will provide the wine.

Tuition is $400.

For experienced poets as well as those who are starting out.
Dates: Thursdays Evenings—April 4-May 16, 2019
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.


Twenty Poems in a Day #46–Saturday, March 2, 2019–SESSION FULL

In one of Ursula Le Guin’s Orsinian Tales, a composer asks himself the question “What good is music?” The story ends with his meditation on this question and its strange answer: “To the world and its states and armies and factories and leaders, music says, ‘You are irrelevant’; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, ‘Listen.’”

To the question that might haunt us at one time or another–“what good is poetry?” –we can offer the same answer: poetry stands as a rebuke to “states and armies and factories and leaders…” It asks us to “listen”…even as we speak. It is an answer that challenges our very way of framing the question.

On this Saturday afternoon, we will see what happens when dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in the world in and through the imagination.

Date and Time: Saturday, March 2, 2019 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.


Twenty Poems in a Day #45–Saturday, January 5, 2019–SESSION FULL (Please contact me via “Speak to Me” page or email to check for cancellations) 

The first poem-making session of the New Year: four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in the world in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  I will distribute the newest and fullest printing of The Compendium at this session.

Date and Time: Saturday, January 5, 2019 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

Twenty Poems in a Day #44–Saturday, December 1, 2018

We might ask what we can do as poets in dark times. But as poets, we answer to no one: poetry only asks us to look at the world with a disinterested love and alertness, free of duty or obligation to anything but experiencing, observing, and recording how it feels to live in this world among its beings and the being that is our Other Self–the self that we come to experience in solitude.

And yet…poetry opens us to realms of the imagination and its power to point the way toward alternatives; it gives us intimations and intuitions of the Possible that ready us for action in the public square. As poets coming together in the fellowship of friends and kindred spirits to write poems, we can be reminded and encouraged in our devotion to the life of the imagination and its essential task of helping us live in the world.

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in the world in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  I will distribute the newest and fullest printing of The Compendium at this session.

Date and Time: Saturday, December 1, 2018, 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

 

Twenty Poems in a Day #43–Saturday, October 20, 2018

Now more than ever we need forces of good to counteract the forces of greed, corruption, hatred, and fascism. I am devoted to the idea that poetry is a force for good: it opens us to realms of the imagination and the power of the inner life– intuitions of the Possible that ready us for action in the public square. And I think we all need the company of kindred spirits in times like these.

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  I will distribute the newest and fullest printing of The Compendium at this session.

Date and Time: Saturday, October 20, 2018, 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.


Twenty Poems in a Day #42–Saturday, September 15,
 2018

Now more than ever we need forces of good to counteract the forces of greed, corruption, hatred, and fascism. I am devoted to the idea that poetry is a force for good: it opens us to realms of the imagination and the power of the inner life– intuitions of the Possible that ready us for action in the public square. And I think we all need the company of kindred spirits in times like these.

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, September 15, 2018, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

Twenty Poems in a Day #41–Saturday, July 14, 2018

Now more than ever we need forces of good to counteract the forces of greed, corruption, hatred, and fascism. I am devoted to the idea that poetry is a force for good: it opens us to realms of the imagination and the power of the inner life– intuitions of the Possible that ready us for action in the public square. And I think we all need the company of kindred spirits in times like these.

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, July 14, 2018, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.


Wandering Metropolitaniana: Poem-making at the Met Museum–Saturday, June 23, 2018

Strange mirrored eggs made of jewels; luxurious rococo bedrooms from the 18th century that seem like incubators for nightmares; ancient vessels fired with beautiful glazes; sculptures of marble or stainless steel; Islamic tapestries; Flemish portraits from the 17th century; all manner of treasures and obsessions of the human imagination. What does Futurist sculpture have in common with a French baroque porcelain Maltese dog or a harpsichord or a giant standing Buddha? These are all dreams that have been bodied forth in refractory materials to transform the otherwise purely utilitarian lives we struggle to live into something beautiful. In this very special free Wallson Glass session, poets will be given packets with instructions that will send them to various parts of the museum to make poems in response and/or collaboration with objects. Like all of our sessions, it’s an experiment: I’m curious to see where it leads.

Date and Time: Saturday, June 23, 2018, 1:00-5:00pm

Tuition and Registration: The event is free, but please contact Wallson Glass and RSVP  in order for materials to be ready for you.
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

morceaux de caprice
Twenty Poems in a Day #40–Saturday, June 9, 2018  
 

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, June 9, 2018, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

Nutter:Graves oval and ovumTwenty Poems in a Day #39–Saturday, May 5, 2018   

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, May 5, 2018, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

Book cover, Allison A.K.A. Mariella AnderliniStrange Machines of Unknown Origin: Twenty Poems in a Day #38–Saturday, April 14, 2018   

William Carlos Williams famously called poems “small machines made out of words.” It’s an apt comparison–but only to a point. If they are machines, they are not like any machines that we know in this world: not made for a purpose; resulting from a kind of organic growth rather than from manufacture; able to be destroyed and put back together again in new ways; sometimes puzzling and difficult to fathom; constructed not out of metal and plastic, but rather “esemplastic”–the word Coleridge coined to mean the unifying power of the imagination. These are “machines” that we construct–not knowing in advance what they will look like or what they will do–in order to bring something beautiful, surprising, and perhaps even troubling into the world.

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments in “constructing” such odd machines, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses. You will try to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, April 14, 2018, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

The Things That Live on Mars--Leigh2

Twenty Poems in a Day #37–Saturday, March 10, 2018   

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

 

Date and Time: Saturday, March 10, 2018, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

Brutalist buildingTwenty Poems in a Day #36–Saturday, February 10, 2018   

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, February 10, 2018, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

Making Worlds: A Poetry Workshop —  Postponed: Please contact me if you have question about date

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on February 1. This six-week session will be for serious poets: those who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. We will read a lot of poetry, talk about a lot of poetry, write a lot of poetry among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country. Begin the Fall in a welcoming and productive atmosphere: Wallson Glass will provide the wine.

Tuition is $400.

For experienced poets as well as those who are starting out.

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–February 1-March 15 , 2018 (No class February 22)

Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

Little Nemo mushroom and butterfliesTwenty Poems in a Day #35–Saturday, January 13, 2018   SESSION FULL–check back soon for Late Night “Seance” in late January

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for a day of poem-making. Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, January 13, 2018, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

fantastic planet taable

Twenty Poems in a Day #34–Saturday, December 9, 2017

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for a day of poem-making. Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, December 9, 2017, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

max ernst green mountains

Twenty Poems in a Day #33–Saturday, October 28, 2017

The life of the imagination–Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. We will avail ourselves of technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Wallson Glass Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, October 28, 2017, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Three shelves of nature's curiosities nicely arrangedA Choice Collection of Nature’s Ever Varying Productions: Twenty Poems in a Day #32–Saturday, September 23, 2017

The life of the imagination–Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. We will avail ourselves of technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Wallson Glass Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, September 23, 2017, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

Confidenza-Iconologia

Making Worlds: A Poetry Workshop September 28-November 2, 2017

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on September 28. This six-week session will be for serious poets: those who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. We will read a lot of poetry, talk about a lot of poetry, write a lot of poetry among friends and kindred spirits. Many recent MFA grads have taken these workshops, and many other participants have gone on to be accepted to some of the finest writing programs in the country. Begin the Fall in a welcoming and productive atmosphere: Wallson Glass will provide the wine.

Tuition is $400.

For experienced poets as well as those who are starting out.

Dates: Thursdays Evenings–September 28-November 2, 2017

Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

 

The Seance: Twenty Poems in a Night #3–Saturday, July 29, 2017

Wakings and fallings asleep in a late-night poem-making session. Hypnogogia, surrealist games, asemic signatories, exquisite self-collaborations, dream-ekphrasis, entopic phenomena, automatisms, deliriums….Yes, it’s late. We will probably be too tired to write for four hours. But write for four hours we shall, in whatever half-dream state we might find ourselves entering. As always, we will avail ourselves of strange books about dreams, gems, birds, machines, mushrooms, weird mansions, water-miracles, clouds, clocks, bric-a-brac, comets, and endless other things sublunary and superlunary, in our efforts to experiment with language and rhythms in ways that will change our world and create new ones. Coffee will begin the evening, and as we progress, wine and fine whiskey will be served. The newest version of The Wallson Glass Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, July 29, 10:00pm-2:00am

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

The Crystal World book cover

Answer July–Twenty Poems in a Day #31–Saturday, July 15, 2017 

The life of the imagination–Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. We will avail ourselves of technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Wallson Glass Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, July 15, 2017, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

All Summer in a Day–Twenty Poems in a Day #30–Saturday, June 3, 2017    

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for a day of poem-making. Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. We will avail ourselves of technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Wallson Glass Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, June 3, 2017, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Twenty Poems in a Day #29–Saturday, April 29, 2017    

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for a day of poem-making. Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language, thought, and dream form weird and luminous syntheses; and to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. We will avail ourselves of technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. And you will write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Wallson Glass Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, April 29, 2017, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Reinterpretations: A Day of Ekphrasis–Twenty Poems in a Day #28–Saturday, March 18, 2017

In a day of poem-making experiments, a focus will be on challenging and extending the meaning of “ekphrasis” by responding to works of visual art, cinema, and music, as well as objects in nature and the world around us. We will avail ourselves of technical journals, art books, strange silent films, unclassifiable texts; books on ceramics, glass, antique snuff boxes and clocks; constructivist towers, Brutalist structures, weird interiors, stylized ruins, Victorian bric-a-brac and ancient vessels; and all manner of bizarre tomes and dream books. As always, it will be a day of intense and amazing poem-making.

Date and Time: Saturday, March 18, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Twenty Poems in a Day #27–Saturday, February 25, 2017

We are suddenly in a time when language is being drained of life and precision so that it might be used for deception, obfuscation, confusion, and manipulation. As a counter to power’s obsession with utility and its soul-killing mission to treat all things as means to an end, we poets must pledge to reendow language with life, imagination, surprise and light. On this day, we will work under the assumption that achieving foretastes of the beautiful through language is an end in itself. An end of spiritual and moral significance.

Date and Time: Saturday, February 25, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

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Wallson Glass in Seattle–March 25, 2017

Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry presents a session of Wallson Glass at Hugo House in Seattle, Washington.

This generative poem-making session will consist of four hours of writing experiments. We will employ word lists, technical journals, films, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes to form strange and beautiful syntheses with our memories and dreams in an effort to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings–and to try to write as much or more than we have ever written in a day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds, living in and through the imagination—these activities are especially crucial in dark times. This class is geared toward poets of all skill levels–published poets, casual poets, beginners, and all in between will gain from taking this class. Participants in the New York sessions have included published and prize-winning poets, MFA students and graduates, and beginning poets. If you feel like you ever struggled with “writer’s block”, this will give you tools to work with.

Date and Time: Saturday, March 25, 1:00-5:00pm

Registration: Please visit https://hugohouse.org/store/class/twenty-poems-day-geoffrey-nutter/

Location: Hugo House, 1021 Columbia St.  Seattle, WA 98104

 

Transformations: Twenty Poems in a Day #26–Saturday, January 14, 2017

Date and Time: Saturday, January 14, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Kircher weird lily sea monsterIdols Can Take on Other Shapes: Twenty Poems in a Day #25–Saturday, November 19, 2016

For many of us, the days since November 9 have been filled with apprehensiveness and uncertainty. Many of us are trying to figure out what our next move will be and how we will live in this strange new world. We are trying to think of ways we can take action. There is something we can do immediately: live the life of the imagination unapologetically. Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for a day of poem-making. Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. N.B. The new Compendium will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, November 19, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students (for this class, you can “Pay What You Can”–pay at “Donate” button on Register page)

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

perpetual motion edited

Power Generators: Twenty Poems in a Day #24–Saturday, October 22, 2016     

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for a day of poem-making. Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.   N.B.:  The new edition of The Wallson Glass Miscellany will be distributed.

Date and Time: Saturday, October 22, 2016, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Hell's Pavement

Wallson Glass in Nebraska–October 29, 2016

Poets of Omaha! Join Wallson Glass for a day of poetry. I am excited to be able to spend the day with you steeped in language, strange documents, and the mining of memories and dreams as we make a number of poems in a very short time. This event brought to you by the Nebraska Writers Collective with help from Humanities Nebraska and the University of Nebraska at Omaha MFA in Writing Program.

Date and Time: Saturday, October 29, 1:00-3:00pm

Tuition: Free for all

Location: The Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, Room 201
6400 South, University Drive Road North, Omaha, Nebraska 68182

 

Sleepers Awake: Twenty Poems in a Night #2–Saturday, October 1, 2016

Wakings and fallings asleep in a late-night poem-making session.

Date and Time: Saturday, October 1, 10:00pm-2:00am

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

The Golden Beetle: Twenty Poems in a Day #23–Saturday, September 10, 2016     CLASS FULL–Check back in coming days for next session

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for a day of poem-making. Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day. The transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination.

Date and Time: Saturday, September 10, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Live in the World of Tomorrow…Today: Twenty Poems in a Day #22–Saturday, July 16, 2016

An intensive four hours of poem-making: the transformation of the real and the making of speculative worlds. Living in and through the imagination. Giant free catalog….

Date and Time: Saturday, July 16, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Mac Zimmerman sketchSketchbooks: Twenty Poems in a Day #21–Saturday, June 18, 2016

There is something exciting about sketchbooks–when you page through an artist’s sketchbook you can see the mind at work, not concerned with perfection but rather with the act of getting things down. It is the place where artists play, experimenting with materials, learning their possibilities and limitations and discovering how materials can make exciting visions of the way the world is and can be. In this seminar, we will let the imagination roam through our poem “sketchbooks”, experiencing beautiful imperfectness that is the ingathering of the world into strange new shapes, lines, shadings. A day of intensive poem-making.

Date and Time: Saturday, June 18, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Sleepers Awake: Twenty Poems in a Night #1–Saturday, June 11, 2016

Wakings and fallings asleep in a late-night poem-making session.

Date and Time: Saturday, June 11, 10:00pm-2:00am

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

specimens of table glass Strange Vessels: Twenty Poems in a Day #20–Saturday, May 21, 2016

Strange vessels. Makers and their inexhaustibly various materials. Rearrangements of language and rhythm and color into the presentation of world and worlds.  Join Wallson Glass, Geoffrey Nutter, and a group of fabulous fellow poets (current and former MFA Poets, poets who have published one or more books, aspiring poets, etc.) for an afternoon of poem making. An afternoon of employing sometimes beautiful, sometimes unpolished, and sometimes refractory materials in the making of iridescent vessels: the artifacts of a transformed present and alternative futures. In this vigorous seminar we will write ourselves into a replenishing exhaustion and a state of sustained lucid dreaming.

Date and Time: Saturday, May 21, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

The voices of time

Selves: Twenty Poems in a Day #19 Saturday, April 16, 2016

Rearrangements of language and rhythm and color into the presentation of world and worlds.  Join Wallson Glass, Geoffrey Nutter, and a group of fabulous fellow poets (current and former MFA Poets, poets who have published one or more books, aspiring poets, etc.) for an afternoon of poem making. In this vigorous seminar we will write ourselves into a replenishing exhaustion and a state of sustained lucid dreaming–speaking to the other selves we are; selves we didn’t know were ours; speaking in solitude as the act of community it necessarily is; speaking to language; finding ourselves by looking for something else. Class will fill up fast, so please register to ensure a spot at the table.

Date and Time: Saturday, April 16, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Making Worlds: A Poetry Workshop April 14-May 19, 2016

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on April 14. This six-week session will be for serious poets: those who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to utterly change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. We will read a lot of poetry, talk about a lot of poetry, write a lot of poetry among friends and kindred spirits.

Tuition is $400.

For experienced poets as well as those who are starting out.

Dates: Thursdays–April 14-May 19, 2016

Time: 6:00-9:00 pm.

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

 

Twenty Poems in a Day #18 Saturday, March 12, 2016

Inspired by anything and everything in the world of words and things, we will spend an entire afternoon constructing poems that will surprise ourselves and each other. This promises to be a productive afternoon and a triumph of the imagination over the forces of evil.

Date and Time: Saturday, March 12, 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Internal Structure of Crystals: Twenty Poems in a Day #17 Saturday, February 6, 2016

Date and Time: Saturday, February 6, 2:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $100/ $75 for students
Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan
*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

The Strange Alphabet: Twenty Poems in a Day #16 Saturday, January 16, 2016     SESSION FULL–PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR FEBRUARY SESSION Further adventures in poesy for the New Year: four hours of poem-making, lucid dreaming, hallucinatory wakefulness, elated exhaustion, with friends and kindred spirits.

Date and Time: Saturday, January 16, 2:00-6:00pm   

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Twenty Poems in a Day #15  Saturday, November 21, 2015    ONE SPACE LEFT 

More adventures in poesy: four intense hours of poem-making, lucid dreaming, hallucinatory wakefulness, elated exhaustion, with friends and kindred spirits.

Date and Time: Saturday, November 21, 2:00-6:00pm   

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

Confidenza-Iconologia

Twenty Poems in a Day #14  Saturday, October 24, 2015

More adventures in poesy: four intense hours of poem-making, lucid dreaming, hallucinatory wakefulness, elated exhaustion, with friends and kindred spirits.

Date and Time: Saturday, October 24, 2:00-6:00pm   

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

blast furnace

Plants…Seashells…Blast Furnaces:  A Poetry Workshop September 17-October 22, 2015

In his beautiful meditation on seashells, Paul Valery observed how “we can conceive of the structure of these objects, and this is what intrigues us. Although we ourselves were formed of imperceptible growth, we do not know how to create anything in that way.” Coleridge compared the action of the imagination to the organic process of growth–a process of natural and elemental spontaneity. In this six-week workshop, we will approach our poems as the results of organic and strangely living processes of growth. But we will expose our poems to the transformative processes of the “blast furnace”–our honed critical apparatus. Classes will consist of writing exercises, workshop, and discussion.

And there will be wine. I hope to see you on these six Thursday evenings in the early fall with like-minded friends.

Six Thursdays,  September 17-October 22, 2015

Time: 6:00-8:30 pm.

Location: Inwood, Upper Manhattan (exact location to be announced)

Tuition is $400.

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition. For more information, go to “speak to me” page and…speak to me.

 

new paraguayan stamp

Strange Seasons: Twenty Poems in a Day #13  Saturday, September 12, 2015

More adventures in poesy: four intense hours of poem-making, lucid dreaming, hallucinatory wakefulness, elated exhaustion, with friends and kindred spirits.

Date and Time: Saturday, September 12, 2:00-6:00pm   

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

de heem with pea pods

Rearrangements: Twenty Poems in a Day #12  Saturday, July 11, 2015

Rearrangements of language and rhythm and color into the presentation of world and worlds. Join Wallson Glass, Geoffrey Nutter, and a group of fabulous fellow poets (current and former MFA Poets, poets who have published one or more books, aspiring poets, etc.) for an afternoon of poetry writing. In this vigorous seminar we will write ourselves into a replenishing exhaustion and a state of sustained lucid dreaming. Class will fill up fast, so please register to ensure a spot at the table.

Date and Time: Saturday, July 11, 2:00-6:00pm  

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

List of Illustrations

List of Illustrations: Twenty Poems in a Day #11 Saturday, June 20, 2015   

Join Wallson Glass, Geoffrey Nutter, and a group of fabulous fellow poets (current and former MFA Poets, poets who have published one or more books, aspiring poets, etc.) for an afternoon of poetry writing. In this vigorous seminar we will write ourselves into a replenishing exhaustion and a state of sustained lucid dreaming.

Date and Time: Saturday, June 20, 2:00-6:00pm   CLASS FULL–Please check back soon for July session

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

perpetual motion and poppy

Things: Twenty Poems in a Day #10 Saturday, May 9, 2015

Join Wallson Glass and fellow poets for a day of writing. Four hours of writing experiments, using an array of texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides, tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world of things and ideas as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you have ever written in one day.

Date and Time: Saturday, May 9, 2:00-6:00pm   Two spaces left  

Tuition: $100/ $75 for students

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

The winged lion

Winged Lions: Twenty Poems in a Day #9  Saturday, March 14, 2015

As poets, one response to the destruction of beautiful art is to make something beautiful. In honor of the ancient and fantastic artifacts destroyed at the museum of Mosul, an afternoon dedicated to the imagination. Four hours of writing experiments on a Saturday afternoon, using divers texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” In times like these, the work of the imagination is essential and transformative.

Date and Time: Saturday, March 14, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $75

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

An early hydrogen balloon

Clouds: Twenty Poems in a Day #8  Saturday, February 7, 2015

Further adventures in poesy. Four hours of writing experiments on a Saturday afternoon, using divers texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” Our day’s work: to watch as language and thought, dreams, lists, technical journals, field guides and tracts and herbal tomes swirl into our memories and dreams and form strange syntheses; to reorder our experience of living in the world as poets and human beings. And to write as much as you ever written in one day. In times like these, the work of the imagination is essential and transformative.

Date and Time: Saturday, February 7, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $75

Location: The Home of Wallson Glass, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

pink birds

Strange Interchanges: A Poetry Workshop January 8-February 12, 2015

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Six Thursdays, January 8-February 12, 2015

Time: 6:00-8:30 pm.

Location: Inwood, Upper Manhattan (exact location to be announced)

Tuition is $400. This includes a one-on-one conference.

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition. For more information, go to “speak to me” page and…speak to me.

 

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A Prism of the First Order: A Poetry Workshop October 22-December 3, 2014 (no class 11/26)

NOTE NEW START DATE: CLASS WILL BEGIN OCTOBER 22

Please join us for six evenings of poetry discussion, critique, writing experiments, and the good company of kindred spirits and fellow poets. Participants in Wallson Glass have included numerous poets who have published one or more volumes, recent graduates of fine MFA schools, professors of various fascinating areas of study, pastors, artists, emerging poets, directors of fabulous writing programs, etc.

Dates: Six Wednesdays, October 15-November 19, 2014

Time: 6:00-8:30 pm.

Location: Our Saviour’s Atonement Church on Bennet and 189th Street in Washington Heights.

Tuition is $400. This includes a one-on-one conference.

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

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Even More Endless Amusements: Twenty Poems in a Day #7

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Join Wallson Glass and a fantastic group of fellow poets in a day of poem-writing. Four hours of prompts ensuring you will write a chap-book’s worth of poems, using divers texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.” A wonderful “trial of invention.”

Date and Time: Saturday, September 27, 2014, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $75

Location: A Public Space (323 Dean Street, Brooklyn)

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

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Wallson Glass In BrooklynTwenty Poems in a Day #6–Saturday, July 12, 2014

Further adventures in poesy will take place at A Public Space in Brooklyn. Four hours of writing experiments on a Saturday afternoon, using divers texts to create collages of language and thought in the course of adding to the “stock of available reality.”

 

Date and Time: Saturday, July 12, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $75

Location: A Public Space, 323 Dean Street, Brooklyn.

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

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A Fine Excess: Poetry To the Edge of Summer–May 14-June 18, 2014

“I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity—it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance…”  -John Keats

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on May 14. This six-week session will be for poets who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; who are currently undergrads who have decided to utterly change the direction of their lives through poetry; who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said. Tuition is $400. This includes a one-on-one conference. For experienced poets as well as those who are starting out.

Dates: Wednesdays, May 14-June 18, 2014

Time: 6:00-8:30 pm.

Location: Our Saviour’s Atonement Church on Bennet and 189th Street in Washington Heights.

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

 

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Endless Amusements: Twenty Poems in a Day #5–Saturday, May 10, 2014

Further adventures in poesy. Four hours of writing. It is not often that we are able to actually sit and write poems for four hours at a stretch. You will do it on this Saturday. And with the help of exercises that will add to your “stock of available reality.”

 

Date and Time: Saturday, May 10, 2:00-6:00pm

Tuition: $75

Location: Our Saviour’s Atonement Church, Upper Manhattan

*Please go to “Register” page to sign up and pay tuition.

 

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Trials of Invention: Twenty Poems in a Day #4–Saturday, April 12, 2014

Keats’s great poem “Endymion” was the result of what he called his “trial of invention.” He set himself the task of writing four thousand lines of sustained beauty and intensity. In the process of this hard work, Keats would transform himself into poet. Through an arbitrary plan and much labor, Keats conceived a sublimely strange and inspired poem. Taking Keats’s ambition as a model, we will engage in our own attempt to create beautiful work through a series of seemingly arbitrary “trials.” Over a few hours of intense writing, you will make a substantial body of work–poems or beginnings of poems or parts of poems you can work with later.

Date and Time: Saturday, April 12, 2014 from 2:00-6:00pm.

Tuition: $75.00

Location: Our Saviour’s Atonement Church on Bennet and 189th Street in Washington Heights.

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

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Twenty Poems in a Day #3–Saturday, March 15, 2014

We will write many poems under time constraints, and you will leave the seminar with beautiful and extraordinary poems and beginnings of poems. You will write in ways that you likely have never tried. Being in a group of other poets who are writing under time constraints will force you to be alert and exercise a sense of non-attachment that will lead to surprising moments of intuition and beauty.

Date and Time:  Saturday March 15, 2014 from 2:00-6:00pm.

Tuition: $75

Location: Our Saviour’s Atonement Church on Bennet and 189th Street in Washington Heights.

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

 

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The World Reimagined–March 20-May 1, 2014

Please join me for this Poetry Seminar and Workshop, which will begin on March 20. This six-week session will be for serious poets: those who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to utterly change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. You will read a lot of poetry, talk about a lot of poetry, write a lot of poetry. Most importantly, we will have fun while getting ourselves writing.

Tuition is $400. This includes a one-on-one conference.

For experienced poets as well as those who are starting out.

Dates: Thursdays–March 20, March 27, April 3, April 17, April 24, and May 1, 2014. (Note: no class April 10)

Time: 6:00-8:30 pm.

Location: Our Saviour’s Atonement Church on Bennet and 189th Street in Washington Heights.

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

 

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The Door into Spring: Twenty Poems in a Day –January 18

You must learn to sit down and write a poem while life is going on around you. This requires practice. We will write many poems under time constraints, and you will leave the workshop with beautiful and extraordinary poems and beginnings of poems. You will write in ways that you likely have never tried. Being in a group of other poets who are writing under time constraints will force you to be alert and exercise a sense of non-attachment that will lead to surprising moments of intuition and beauty. On this winter day, we will walk together through the door into spring.

Date and Time:  Saturday January 18, 2014 from 2:00-6:00pm.

LOCATION CHANGE–PLEASE EMAIL ME FOR LOCATION VIA “CONTACT ME” PAGE

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

 

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The Ongoing Friendship: A Poetry Workshop/Seminar-January 2014

When we read the poetry of Keats, Bishop, Basho, Stevens, Dickinson, and Tu Fu, not as scholars but as human beings and as poets, we reach out over the centuries and touch hands with living people…and those people become not the remote Great Ones that we might have studied in school, but something much more human and intimate: that is, friends.

The “great” poets were, after all, just people like us, who were also trying to deal with the intractability of life and language. I believe that when we write a poem, we reinvent Poetry and renew ourselves. When we read a poem, whether written a thousand years ago or an hour ago, it is as if the poet has just finished writing it–the ink is still wet and the poet has handed the poem to us under the door.

This is a class for people who want to write poems and who want to read poems not as scholars but as poets. We will try to make poems of incandescent life and beauty and intensity and directness using the tools that poets of every place and time have used: image, music, form–as well as our dreams, experiences, and desires. I want us to think of the poets who have gone before us as fellow practitioners, as friends in the next room. We will strive for something that poems can give us: the newness that outlives time. And we will forge friendships with our fellow poets, those living and those dead, that will outlive time. To put this in a very simple way: we will write poems and discuss one another’s poems and think of ourselves as among friends, poets immediately present (in the room) and those present but unseen (in the next room). We will engage in writing exercises, and discussion and workshopping of each other’s poems. I think this will be an exciting experience for all of us.

For experienced poets as well as those who are starting out.

Date: January 8-February 12, 2014.

Time: 6:00-8:30 pm.

Location: Our Saviour’s Atonement Church.

*Please go to “Register” page to join this class and pay tuition.

 

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Twenty Poems in a Day

I am excited to announce one-day Saturday classes at Our Saviour’s Atonement Church in Upper Manhattan. The first will be an intense four hours of writing exercises (including a break) with the goal of leaving the class with a substantial body of raw material. Through a variety of different writing prompts you will write (or at least begin) more poems than you ever thought you might be capable of writing in an afternoon. This class is geared toward poets of all skill levels–published poets, casual poets, beginners, and all in between will gain from taking this class. If you feel like you ever suffer from “writer’s block”, this will give you tools to work with. The first class will be Sunday, January 4, 2014. The tuition is $75. To be held in the cozy church library.

Date and Time: Saturday, January 4 from 2:00-6:00pm.

Location: Our Saviour’s Atonement Church on Bennet & 189th Street, Washington Heights.

 

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Three-Week Poetry Seminars: Pushing Toward Invention/Inviting Inspiration–December 2013

The poet John Keats felt the strong compulsion to write poems–but was haunted and intimidated by the feeling that he had nothing to say and nothing to write about. He faced this situation by writing through it, by setting himself a goal and challenging his own powers of invention to reach it. In the process he discovered himself as a poet. Many of us have felt the compulsion to write while feeling we have nothing to say. Others have felt they had something to say, but no way to get started writing. This class will focus on writing exercises, with the goal of leaving the class with a small collection of poems and an arsenal of strategies to begin and continue poems. Every student will have at least one poem discussed in class, as well as an individual conference.

This seminar will run for three weeks in December. There will be a Tuesday session and a Wednesday session, and both will take place at Our Saviour’s Atonement Church on Bennet and 189th Street. Tuition will be $200, which includes conference. Please email me or send a note through the Speak To Me page if you have any questions or would like further information. Here are the class dates:

 Tuesday Three-Week Session

December 3    6-8:30
December 10  6-8:30
December 17  6-8:30

Wednesday Three-Week Session

December 4    6-8:30
December 11  6-8:30
December 18  6-8:30

 

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Building Worlds: A Poetry Seminar and Workshop–October 16-November 20, 2013

Building Worlds: A Poetry Seminar and Workshop, will begin on October 16, 2013. This six-week session will be for serious poets: those who have recently earned an MFA in poetry or are considering doing so in the near future; those who are working on a poetry manuscript or individual poems with a view toward publication; those who are currently undergrads who have decided to utterly change the direction of their lives through poetry; those who have, in their private hours, found that they are driven by compulsion to spend more hours than any person should normally spend in the pursuit of finding the precise words for saying something that has never before been said, etc. You will read a lot of poetry, talk about a lot of poetry, write a lot of poetry. Most importantly, we will have fun while getting ourselves writing.

The tuition for the first course is $450. This includes an hour-long, intensive one-on-one conference. If you are interested or would like more information you can reach me at the Speak To Me page or at geoffrey_nutter@yahoo.com.

Dates and Time: Every Wednesday, October 16-November 20 from 6:00 to 8:00pm.

Location: Our Saviour’s Atonement Church on Bennet & 189th Street.

 

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Coming Soon:

  • Poetry classes for beginning and aspiring poets.
  • Saturday seminar/workshop/lectures, each three hours and each on a theme.
  • Poetry for Children.
  • Sleepless in Koreatown: All night poetry writing in Koreatown, NYC.