Generative Poetry Workshops
A weekly workshop designed to facilitate new drafts, the Generative Poetry Workshops offer prompts, readings, friendly discussion, and no critique.
Generative Poetry 15: Leaping into pools that move
Sundays May 31st-July 5th, 1-2pm PDT, a park in Berkeley
or
Thursdays June 4th-July 9th, 5-6pm PDT, zoom
$155 notaflof
In this class we experiment with clarity, obviousness, and confession; we reinvent gesture as form; we write Choose Your Own Adventure poetry; we read poems by Oki Sogumi, Lindsey Boldt, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Kaufman, and more! In between sessions, I’ll send prompts to complete at home at your leisure. The generative workshops are designed to inspire new poems, and do not involve critique.
To enroll in this workshop or be notified of future workshops, sign up below!
Ronah Baha reading at the 4th Generative Workshop zine release at E.M. Wolfman.
Youth Creative Writing
Sophia Dahlin has taught youth poetry and creative writing with Oakland Poets in the Schools, Poetry Inside Out, and Stanford Pre-Collegiate studies. She now teaches small groups of students for her company Young Writers’ Grove.
Examples of former student work:
Statement on students’ poems up at YALDA
Statement on a special portfolio of students’ poetry in Stone Soup
Student Anthology, CalPoets: Me in the Future & a Sparkle in the Past
Student Anthology, Stanford Pre-Collegiate: Penetrating Midnight; Perpetual Stars
Student Anthology, Stanford Pre-Collegiate: Held in a Heart
Get in touch if you’re interested in hiring her for a workshop!