Beginning Poetry: All 3 classes, Sept-Oct 2026

$100.00 $120.00
sold out

This course is currently full. Join the list to hear first when I run it again.

Three Thursdays, September to October 2026 — $100, saving $20

The last four runs of this series sold out, and places are limited to 15.

Each class stands on its own. But taken together, they build.

Every poem needs three things: a shape on the page, a sound in the ear, and the power to make a reader feel something. Line, rhyme, and showing are those three things. Learn one and you've gained a technique. Learn all three and you have a way of working — you'll start to see how they lean on and pull against each other in every poem you read and write.

By October you'll have written in all three modes, with drafts of your own to show for it and a process for making more.

Dates and times

$100 for all three, instead of $120 — the same as taking the third class at half price.

"Everything I was hoping for — and then some. I especially enjoyed the 'processes' you recommended as we took time to write. You made it fun, yet still richly thoughtful." — D. S., PA, 2026

"Three of my poems have been selected for an anthology. I'm quite shocked and very pleased that I just went for it and submitted. Your workshops were the start of any 'formal' learning for me, and I'm grateful for the input you gave me as I continue my poetic adventure." — L. A., UK, 2026

What to expect

  • Live on Zoom, 12:30–2:00pm ET (9:30–11am PT, 5:30–7pm UK)

  • Limited to 15 people

  • Sharing your work is always optional — there is no critique, and nobody gets put on the spot

  • Can't attend live? Every class is recorded, and the recording is yours to keep indefinitely

  • No experience or preparation needed — just come ready to write

Your teacher: Brian Evans-Jones

I've been teaching poetry since 2005 — at three universities, in dozens of schools as a visiting Teaching Artist, and to hundreds of adults through my own workshops. I was Poet Laureate of Hampshire, UK, in 2012–13, and I won the Maureen Egen Award from Poets & Writers in 2017.

But it took me 14 years to get my first poem published, and 23 to win my first competition. For most of that time I felt the way you might be feeling now: overwhelmed by how much there was to learn, unsure whether anything I wrote was any good, and with no idea what to do next.

What changed it was good teaching. I studied with Charles Simic, David Morley, and others, and they gave me the skills and the confidence I'd been missing for two decades. These workshops are my way of passing some of that on — without the years of study it took me to get it

This course is currently full. Join the list to hear first when I run it again.

This course is currently full. Join the list to hear first when I run it again.

Three Thursdays, September to October 2026 — $100, saving $20

The last four runs of this series sold out, and places are limited to 15.

Each class stands on its own. But taken together, they build.

Every poem needs three things: a shape on the page, a sound in the ear, and the power to make a reader feel something. Line, rhyme, and showing are those three things. Learn one and you've gained a technique. Learn all three and you have a way of working — you'll start to see how they lean on and pull against each other in every poem you read and write.

By October you'll have written in all three modes, with drafts of your own to show for it and a process for making more.

Dates and times

$100 for all three, instead of $120 — the same as taking the third class at half price.

"Everything I was hoping for — and then some. I especially enjoyed the 'processes' you recommended as we took time to write. You made it fun, yet still richly thoughtful." — D. S., PA, 2026

"Three of my poems have been selected for an anthology. I'm quite shocked and very pleased that I just went for it and submitted. Your workshops were the start of any 'formal' learning for me, and I'm grateful for the input you gave me as I continue my poetic adventure." — L. A., UK, 2026

What to expect

  • Live on Zoom, 12:30–2:00pm ET (9:30–11am PT, 5:30–7pm UK)

  • Limited to 15 people

  • Sharing your work is always optional — there is no critique, and nobody gets put on the spot

  • Can't attend live? Every class is recorded, and the recording is yours to keep indefinitely

  • No experience or preparation needed — just come ready to write

Your teacher: Brian Evans-Jones

I've been teaching poetry since 2005 — at three universities, in dozens of schools as a visiting Teaching Artist, and to hundreds of adults through my own workshops. I was Poet Laureate of Hampshire, UK, in 2012–13, and I won the Maureen Egen Award from Poets & Writers in 2017.

But it took me 14 years to get my first poem published, and 23 to win my first competition. For most of that time I felt the way you might be feeling now: overwhelmed by how much there was to learn, unsure whether anything I wrote was any good, and with no idea what to do next.

What changed it was good teaching. I studied with Charles Simic, David Morley, and others, and they gave me the skills and the confidence I'd been missing for two decades. These workshops are my way of passing some of that on — without the years of study it took me to get it

This course is currently full. Join the list to hear first when I run it again.