Poetic Expansion: 6-Week Poetry Workshop with Jessica Cuello (Tuesday Nights via Zoom)

This 6-week poetry workshop meets on Tuesdays, from 6-8 p.m, on Zoom, on the following dates: 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, and 10/7.

Poetic Expansion: We return to our poetic obsessions again and again, and often we burrow inside them. This generative workshop will encourage participants to wander,  take up space, and experiment. Each class will begin with a generative prompt and it will focus primarily on prose writing as a means of poetic expansion. Students will share their own poems with the class for feedback and discussion. (Reading List: Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews, Life in a Field by Katie Peterson, I Have Brought You a Severed Hand by Ghayath Almadhoun, Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, and Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer). Participants are welcome to read these books beforehand, but that is not necessary in order to participate in this workshop.

Jessica Cuello’s newest book, Feral, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in 2027. Her book Liar was selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize. Cuello is the recipient of a 2023 NYSCA Artist Grant, a 2025 Saltonstall Fellowship, and is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review. She is a public school teacher in Central NY.