Heather Grant – The Watching Eye
This course surpassed my expectations. Barbara always provides mentor texts for each week as well as resource references to help learn whatever genre she is teaching. I would recommend this class for all writers/poets.
Read MoreGabriel Padilla – Architecture of the Creative Heart
I absolutely loved this course and I highly recommend it. Mr. Mills is an extremely passionate teacher and has helped my writing immensely.
Read MoreTamara Kreutz – Growing Smaller
I really enjoyed this class. It was well-conceptualized and a lot of fun. Tina was very organized, prepared, and pointed in her feedback.
Read MorePeggy Capomaggi – The Healing Power of Poetry
Excellent. The course was a great experience. I found the content educational, the participants engaged, and the instructor, Joy Sawyer, extremely interesting and knowledgeable. I was very glad to have taken the course. I wish it had been longer in duration!
Read MoreMichelle Bentcliff – The Healing Power of Poetry
This is a healing poetry class on so many levels. Joy is kind, enthusiastic, encouraging and an inspiring teacher who creates a safe space where people can share their innermost feelings. She provided personalized, in-depth and supporting feedback on each person’s poems. I highly recommend this class for anyone who wants to put their expressions in poems feeling healing in the process.
Read MoreEmily Barkin – Architecture of the Creative Heart
Outstanding teacher of all things poetry-related. David’s subject knowledge is extensive. It’s thrilling to come away with much more than a cursory understanding of various poetic forms and the confidence to use them in my own work. The lectures were intense and inspiring. I love what I learned and especially loved feeling like writer’s block was no longer a problem.
Read MoreMimi Zhou – Writing Spontaneously
Exactly what I was hoping for—targeted immersion into a specific writer’s tool backed by discussion and in-class exercises. Jesse picked a good slice of a broader topic to focus on for the one-day course and provided excellent exercises to bring her points home. She was friendly and supportive to everyone in the class. Great learning environment!
Read MoreTina Siegel – Growing Smaller
Tina was great—her feedback was thorough, thoughtful, and enthusiastic. She did a wonderful job of highlighting strengths and identifying weaknesses in a useful way.
Read MoreSusan Vespoli – Growing Smaller
Another inspiring workshop taught by Tina Barry. Usually, I don’t write or read fiction, but was able to apply the lessons to my work in prose poetry and CNF. Good tips in story telling and formatting prose pieces. Well-crafted workshop, good examples, lessons. Tina is top notch.
Read MoreJoseph Caperna – Writing Mindfulness
Assignments and readings all new for me, motivating, unsettling in good ways. Marc helped me show not tell, write down first thoughts, editing is mostly deleting later. He gave me confidence to submit a poem, pending now. This is my second course with Marc Olmsted, and I highly recommend him.
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