Class participants work with forms (sentence, found text, the list), themes (place, history, letter writing) and the making of images that sit near the texts.

In this workshop, students learn to see every good poem as a toolbox for the creation of a new poem.

This hands-on workshop focuses on in-class writing rather than critiquing peer work. A specific assignment or process is explained, and then students get down to work.

Kevin Young is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels and Dear Darkness, and editor of five others, incl