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…

Revision can sometimes feel like correction, judgment, or pressure to make a piece “work.” In this two-hour workshop, we’ll reframe revision as a practice of listening: a way of returning to a draft…

Nothing. I can’t construct a sentence able to withholdthe weight of it; I can’t explain or calculate the kind of weightI mean, what it is that I am with or holding. In high school a teacher explain…

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

Dorsía Smith Silva (In Inheritance of Drowning, CavanKerry, 2024) and Vincent Toro (Hivestruck, Penguin 2024) will explore why their writing in these precarious times is essential…

In this episode, Lisa and Rebecca talk with Mary Simmons, author of Mother, Daughter, Auger. We selected Mary as Solstice Creative Writing Program's Spotlight Poet for the July 2026 residency. Here we...

In this episode, Lisa and Rebecca talk with Mary Simmons, author of Mother, Daughter, Auger. We selected Mary as Solstice Creative Writing Program's Spotlight Poet for the July 2026 residency. Here we...

‘Stay Brave’ is an interview series by woman-identifying creatives for woman-identifying creatives to inspire bravery in the creative life. [Created and curated by Leah Umansky]

On June 24, on the 4-year anniversary of the Supreme Court Dobbs v Jackson decision, we will gather to honor late poet Jennifer Martelli in a reading to support abortion access. Jennifer was a fierce…

We are excited to host Keith S. Wilson & Callie Siskel in conversation about their recent books: Keith’s Games for Children and Callie’s Two Minds. Books that center absence and reimaginings. Keith S.

Join us as we bring together two poets and artists from Texas, Katherine D. Oldmixon and Octavio Quintanilla…

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…

Two poets who have crossed paths in readings and at conferences and have found that they are writing about something that shows up differently for each of them — maternal estrangement.

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Frederico Garcia Lorca said “a poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.” And what better to way to be a teacher of the senses than by looking at food as a source of…

We welcome M. Soledad Caballero and Catherina Coenen to The Notebooks Collective to read from their new books. In addition, there will be a lively conversation about the thematic connections in their…

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