These are writers who relocated to Berlin and made it their home. Both published books in 2025 (Bernadette Geyer’s What Haunts Me and Sylvia Fox’s Little Fish) and are highly influenced by ancestors…

As poets, essayists, and teachers, both Nicky and Catherine embrace a practice of play. Far from being frivolous, or antithetical to serious and complex work, play can be an essential part of the…

It's August, which means it's Sealey Challenge time! If you don't know what the Sealey Challenge is, it's the genius brainchild of remarkabl

In this conversation poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi and filmmaker Sasha Waters will discuss Sasha’s American Masters documentary about Mary Oliver (forthcoming Spring 2026) as a means of entering into…

We welcome Iain Haley Pollock & Nathan McClain to The Notebooks Collective in October. We are thrilled to have these two brilliant poets join us to talk about craft, creativity, new work and more.

We welcome Taylor Byas & jason b. crawford to The Notebooks Collective in September. We are thrilled to have these two brilliant poets join us to talk about craft, friendship, using poetry as a means…

Shift your revision practice from one of judgment to one of discovery and accountability.

This is a class in dualities: two forms, two poems. (In two hours!) The two forms: We’ll explore the prose poem (a hybrid of prose and poetry) and the prose poem as memoir (a lyric rendering of a…

Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis on the Role of Literature in Formation, 17 July 2024

Upcoming Events April 23 at 7 PM ET and June 7 at 10:30 AM ET, 2025 Virtual Workshop: Fighting Firehose With Fire Join PARH USA poets Pauletta Hansel and Tabassam Shah for a 90-minute exploration of t...

Emotional openness. An invitation to think together. Fleda Brown and Anne-Marie Oomen aren’t just contemporaries; they’re friends and deep admirers of each other’s work.

Poets Cynthia Marie Hoffman and Sarah Kain Gutowski will read from their collected works, with an emphasis on their newest respective collections, both of which are cohesively themed (Cynthia’s is a…

A generative course that will look attentively at poems by Ai, Lucie Brock-Broido, and Patricia Smith among others. We’ll explore ways to enter persona and deepen the imaginative possibilities of…

A reading with Eric Doise, Lauren Carlson and Halley Cotton to celebrate the work of poet and writer Saara Myrene Raappana.