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About This Event
NOTE: Registration requires a $60 deposit, which can be waived by Porch members using the member discount code. You will receive a payment link in your registration receipt, and the remaining $1200 payment can be paid in full immediately or in monthly installments.
The six-month poetry cohort is a terrific option for writers looking to deepen their relationship to poetry through experimentation, conversation, and guidance. If you are looking to dedicate more time to your poetry and establish a stronger writing routine, then this is the program for you.
This six-month poetry cohort is designed for writers seeking a flexible yet focused environment to establish or deepen their poetry writing practice. Our focus will be on accountability, encouragement, and community.
With a maximum of 10 participants, this cohort offers personalized feedback, goal-setting, and accountability, all from the convenience of an online setting. It’s an ideal option for both local and remote writers looking to work closely with peers and an experienced instructor.
Monthly Meetings (Online via Zoom):
Once a month, we’ll gather over Zoom for a two-hour session, where you’ll have dedicated time to workshop poems and discuss your writing goals, challenges, successes, and general questions. In these meetings, we’ll dive deep into key craft elements and some generative exercises. Not every meeting will focus on line-by-line feedback—sometimes we’ll zero in on specific elements (for instance, focus on everyone’s use of line breaks or metaphors) and see how isolating a particular craft element can help us grow as poets.
- Monday, 1/25/27, 6-8pm CT
- Monday, 2/22/27, 6-8pm CT
- Monday, 3/29/27, 6-8pm CT
- Monday, 4/26/27, 6-8pm CT
- Monday, 5/24/27, 6-8pm CT
- Monday, 6/28/27, 6-8pm CT
Between Meetings (Asynchronous):
In between sessions, you’ll stay connected through a Google Classroom Space, where you can submit drafts and offer feedback. You’ll also have the option to engage in additional check-ins or discussions, whether through written feedback or brief one-on-one meetings. This flexible structure ensures continuous progress on your poetry, while still providing opportunities for personalized guidance and accountability.
Expectations:
What you can expect from the instructor:
- extensive written feedback on three pages of poetry per month, along with suggested readings; lighter feedback on monthly drafts
- two generative exercises posted each month for inspiration
- two craft-based readings posted each month for deepening your knowledge on various craft issues, with conversations about these readings during our live zooms
- three 30-minute one-on-one zooms during the six months we work together. You’ll have flexibility over when these are scheduled.
- three hosted “write-ins” where we write together on zoom (minimal conversation, focused on drafting; these will be outside of our regularly scheduled zoom meetings)
What you can expect from yourself:
- accountability: together, as a group, we will set goals at the start of the year for how often people will share work in our Google Classroom.
- community: option to host a ‘write-in’ for fellow group members (on zoom)
- encouragement: you’ll be responsible for giving feedback to your peers during our live zoom workshops and asynchronously (we will make this responsibility manageable based on group size)
What you can expect from your peers:
- caring, honest feedback on work-in-progress
- encouragement when you’re feeling stuck or down on your work
- community and a sense of shared purpose
About This Event
NOTE: Registration requires a $60 deposit, which can be waived by Porch members using the member discount code. You will receive a payment link in your registration receipt, and the remaining $1200 payment can be paid in full immediately or in monthly installments.
The six-month poetry cohort is a terrific option for writers looking to deepen their relationship to poetry through experimentation, conversation, and guidance. If you are looking to dedicate more time to your poetry and establish a stronger writing routine, then this is the program for you.
This six-month poetry cohort is designed for writers seeking a flexible yet focused environment to establish or deepen their poetry writing practice. Our focus will be on accountability, encouragement, and community.
With a maximum of 10 participants, this cohort offers personalized feedback, goal-setting, and accountability, all from the convenience of an online setting. It’s an ideal option for both local and remote writers looking to work closely with peers and an experienced instructor.
Monthly Meetings (Online via Zoom):
Once a month, we’ll gather over Zoom for a two-hour session, where you’ll have dedicated time to workshop poems and discuss your writing goals, challenges, successes, and general questions. In these meetings, we’ll dive deep into key craft elements and some generative exercises. Not every meeting will focus on line-by-line feedback—sometimes we’ll zero in on specific elements (for instance, focus on everyone’s use of line breaks or metaphors) and see how isolating a particular craft element can help us grow as poets.
- Monday, 1/25/27, 6-8pm CT
- Monday, 2/22/27, 6-8pm CT
- Monday, 3/29/27, 6-8pm CT
- Monday, 4/26/27, 6-8pm CT
- Monday, 5/24/27, 6-8pm CT
- Monday, 6/28/27, 6-8pm CT
Between Meetings (Asynchronous):
In between sessions, you’ll stay connected through a Google Classroom Space, where you can submit drafts and offer feedback. You’ll also have the option to engage in additional check-ins or discussions, whether through written feedback or brief one-on-one meetings. This flexible structure ensures continuous progress on your poetry, while still providing opportunities for personalized guidance and accountability.
Expectations:
What you can expect from the instructor:
- extensive written feedback on three pages of poetry per month, along with suggested readings; lighter feedback on monthly drafts
- two generative exercises posted each month for inspiration
- two craft-based readings posted each month for deepening your knowledge on various craft issues, with conversations about these readings during our live zooms
- three 30-minute one-on-one zooms during the six months we work together. You’ll have flexibility over when these are scheduled.
- three hosted “write-ins” where we write together on zoom (minimal conversation, focused on drafting; these will be outside of our regularly scheduled zoom meetings)
What you can expect from yourself:
- accountability: together, as a group, we will set goals at the start of the year for how often people will share work in our Google Classroom.
- community: option to host a ‘write-in’ for fellow group members (on zoom)
- encouragement: you’ll be responsible for giving feedback to your peers during our live zoom workshops and asynchronously (we will make this responsibility manageable based on group size)
What you can expect from your peers:
- caring, honest feedback on work-in-progress
- encouragement when you’re feeling stuck or down on your work
- community and a sense of shared purpose
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Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press), and the chapbook Hesitation Waltz (Midwest Writing Center). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her writing has appeared in Blackbird, Colorado Review, Terrain.org, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University.