Although I have had an interest in poetry and prose from a young age, and indeed had a journal with pages filled with poems, it wasn’t until I began joining the Saturday afternoon Wallson Glass Excursions that I truly began to discover poetry. Geoffrey has done something incredibly special with his online poetry classes: he has created an environment where strangers explore art and language together in a space where even the timid feel themselves pulled out of their shells to share their poems. I, myself, began as one such student who was not certain if what they had cobbled together was worth sharing, yet when I did share, I was rewarded ten times over with people calling out specific lines and language they had enjoyed.

I have found all Wallson Glass poetry sessions to be intensely rewarding experiences. After over a year of joining the Saturday Excursions, I decided to sign up for one of Geoffrey’s six-week poetry workshops, wherein each week you bring a poem of your own, and you receive and give feedback on the groups poems. This experience in particular has helped me to grow as a writer, as it has shown me where I can improve and push past bad habits, as well as has helped me in putting to words what resonates in other poems and what doesn’t. The groups are always small yet diverse, and one cannot help but learn from the different styles of the people within them.

I cannot endorse these sessions, or Geoffrey, enough. He has curated an environment of support and excitement for playing with language, open to the barest novice and the published poet alike.