Participants of this class will discuss how to see into “the deep heart’s core” of a poem and how to refine that core sentiment and sensibility by heightening attention to images, tropes, diction,

Building on the concerns uncovered in Skinner’s two previous seminars, this workshop is an ecopoetics field audit that focuses on Poets House’s location along the Hudson River and introduces site-b

Students will compose and revise their own elegies and examine a selection of elegies by Auden, Bishop, Heaney, Lowell, Merwin, Milton, Ponsot, Shelley, Stevens, Walcott and Whitman, among others

Students will make poems and experiment with tactile methods, unusual scale, spaces and durations in order to create a more open field for poetic possibility.

This reading and writing class is a study of selected members of the New York School of poets, circa 1970–1980. Documentary film and recordings,

Nalini Nadkarni (Friday only)