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New Guided Poetry Reading Groups
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Fall/Winter 2026
Reading Groups are facilitated sessions guiding committed poets and poetry readers in a practice of reading more deeply, creatively, and intentionally. Each month, groups perform a close reading of a current book of poetry—books that are overlooked and underrated, books that have something important to tell us about what it is to be alive today.
Groups meet once a month for two hours. Outside of meeting times, I’ll support your reading with prompts, guiding questions, and supplementary materials with a special focus on issues of craft.
11 am-1 pm EST Christopher Gilbert,
Sept. 20, Oct. 25, Nov. 22, Dec. 20
Caroline Knox, To Drink Boiled Snow (Wave, 2015)
Joan Murray, Drafts, Fragments, and Poems: The Complete Poetry (NYRB, 2018)
Rachel Wetzsteon, Sakura Park (Persea, 2006)
10 am-12 pm EST Robert Hayden,
Sept. 24, Oct. 22, Nov. 19, Dec. 17
Laurie Sheck, Captivity (Knopf, 2009)
Bill Knott, I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960-2014 (FSG, 2018)
Donna Masini, Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? (Norton, 2026)
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Loren Goodman:
Gemma Gorga (tr. from Catalan by Sharon Dolin):
Zbigniew Herbert (tr. from Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter):
William Carlos Williams:
Lee Morgan, “Tom Cat,” rec. 1964:
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