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Kaveh Akbar

Five Things I've Learned About

Sacred Poetics

Live: Sunday, June 1, 5:00pm pacific / 8:00pm eastern

Join award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, and scholar Kaveh Akbar in this live, 90-minute class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways antiquity’s spiritual verse can help us to better understand ourselves – and to sit more comfortably in our own uncertain times.

Presented in partnership with the Conscious Writers Collective

Kaveh Akbar

Five Things I've Learned About

Sacred Poetics

Join award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, and scholar Kaveh Akbar in this live, 90-minute class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways antiquity’s spiritual verse can help us to better understand ourselves – and to sit more comfortably in our own uncertain times.

Presented in partnership with the Conscious Writers Collective

Recent classes

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Victoria Chang

Five Things I've Learned About

Creativity – by Being an Outsider

View the archive of this two-hour conversation between poet and writer Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that following an unconventional path can be a...

Jane Hirshfield

Five Things I've Learned About

Poems as Fields of Discovery

View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield, and discover the ways that poems’ original seeing can be invited, recognized, and worked with to open new...

Maggie Smith

Five Things I've Learned About

Creativity – During Times of Upheaval

View the archive of this two-hour conversation between best-selling writer and poet Maggie Smith and Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about what it means to prioritize your creative...

Amber Tamblyn

Five Things I've Learned About

Creativity – and Harnessing Emotion in the Service of Powerful Art

View the archive of this two-hour conversation between poet, author, actress, and director Amber Tamblyn and Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to harness our emotions into the...

Matthew Zapruder

Five Things I've Learned About

Maintaining a Creative Practice in the Chaos

View the archive of this two-hour class from celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the practical and spiritual techniques that have helped him to...

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Kim Addonizio

Five Things I've Learned About

The Poem’s Progress

View the archive of this two-hour class from acclaimed poet, fiction writer, and essayist Kim Addonizio, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the way that great poems work to surprise us, transcend...

Camille Dungy

Five Things I've Learned About

Tending the Gardens of Creativity and Motherhood

View the archive of this 90-minute class from celebrated poet, writer, editor, and scholar Camille Dungy, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that creativity arises from the soil of our most...

Joseph Fasano

Five Things I've Learned About

The Craft and Magic of Poetry

View the archive of this two-hour class from poet, novelist, songwriter, and teacher Joseph Fasano and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how poetry works – and how poetry helps us all become better...

Maya C. Popa

Five Things I've Learned About

Poetic Form

View the archive of this two-hour class from writer, editor, and teacher Maya C. Popa and discover the Five Things I’ve Learned about the ways that poetic form both organizes and conveys our essential emotions and...

Matthew Zapruder

Five Things I've Learned About

Honoring Family as a Source of Creativity

View the archive of this 90-minute class from celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about honoring family as a source of creative inspiration – about...

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