WORKSHOP

We offer monthly theme-based online writing workshops. Workshops are designed to create an accessible and supportive space to both emerging writers as well as those with an established practice. Participants submit poems for feedback on a weekly basis, with optional writing prompts also provided. Space is provided at the end of each workshop for a discussion of the weekly readings. Scroll down for more information about upcoming sessions.

NEW YORK SCHOOL: SECOND WAVE

Now enrolling for October.

For October, we present a follow-up to our popular NEW YORK SCHOOL workshop. New York School: Second Wave! This 5 week workshop will look at the work of Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Frank Lima, and Joseph Ceravolo.

5 weekly Thursday meetings
October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
6-8pm EDT
meetings held online via Zoom
$100-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: NEW YORK SCHOOL 2

JACK SPICER

Now enrolling for November.

For November, we present a very special workshop dedicated entirely to the work of poet Jack Spicer. We will read across Spicer’s various books, including After Lorca, The Holy Grail, A Book of Music, Admonitions, and more, alongside selections from his lectures.

4 weekly Tuesday meetings
November 3, 10, 17, 24
6-8pm EDT
meetings held online via Zoom
$100-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: JACK SPICER

PAST WORKSHOPS

THE STRANGE

This workshop is fully enrolled.

THE STRANGE returns again for June! We will discuss Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of ostranenie, most commonly translated as “defamiliarization.”  Topics of concern will be all things strange! Reading list includes James Tate, Russell Edson, Tomaz Salamun, Vasko Popa, Alice Rahon, Alfred Starr Hamilton, Franz Wright, Bernadette Mayer, Alejandra Pizarnik, David Berman & more!

4 weekly Thursday meetings
June 4, 11, 18, 25.
6-8pm EDT
meetings held online via Zoom
$100-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: THE STRANGE

Greece & ROME

This workshop is fully enrolled.

For May, blush presents Greece & Rome, a workshop focused on bawdy and erotic poetry from Greco-Roman antiquity. Reading list includes major figures like Sappho, Catullus, & Martial, alongside minor writers like Strato of Sardis, Korinna, Philodemos & more.

4 weekly Tuesday meetings
May 5, 12, 18, 26
6-8pm EST
meetings held online via Zoom
$100-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: GREECE & ROME

NEW YORK SCHOOL

This workshop is fully enrolled.

Back by popular request. NEW YORK SCHOOL returns for April! A special 5 week workshop focusing on the 5 core poets explicitly associated with the first generation of the New York School: Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, James Schuyler & Kenneth Koch.

5 weekly Thursday meetings
April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
6-8pm EST
meetings held online via Zoom
$100-150 sliding scale
Led by blush editor Jon Ruseski

to enroll

email: blush.editors@gmail.com

subject: NEW YORK SCHOOL