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It’s All About Me: Finding Your Place in the World and the Poem — A Workshop with Alexis Sears

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It’s All About Me: Finding Your Place in the World and the Poem
A Workshop with Alexis Sears

Workshop Leader: Alexis Sears
Date: Sunday, April 19
Time: 2pm Eastern
Duration: 2-hours
Cost: $25 (sliding scale)

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Readings are recorded and shared with all who register.

Workshop Description

In this single-session workshop, we’ll explore the art of writing the self without falling into cliché, diary-entry confessionalism. Students will craft intentional self-portraits in poetry, distinguish between various personas, and discuss the ethics surrounding writing about people we know. We’ll engage in generative exercises, close readings, and workshop discussions to transform personal experience into powerful, surprising poetry.

About The Workshop Leader

Alexis Sears is the author of Out of Order, winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award: Best Book of 2022. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Poet Lore, Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BA in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Los Angeles.

That Feeling When… ~ A Workshop with Grant Clauser

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That Feeling When…
A Workshop with Grant Clauser
Hosted by Mark Danowsky (ONE ART)

Workshop Leader: Grant Clauser
Date: Tuesday, February 17
Time: 6:00-8:00pm Eastern
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: $25 (sliding scale)

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About The Workshop

We make poems because poems are the best (sometimes the only) ways to express the things we feel and experience. And so often, those “things” we try to express don’t have words for them. Poetry helps us say the things that can’t be said otherwise. It puts abstract thoughts and ideas into a shareable form and allows other people to experience those ideas through them. In this generative workshop we’ll look at ways to take the abstract and give it form. You’ll come away with some starter poems to continue to work on, and strategies to create more.

About The Workshop Leader

Grant Clauser’s sixth poetry book is Temporary Shelters from Cornerstone Press. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Southern Review, Kenyon Review and other journals. He’s an editor for a news media company and teaches poetry at Rosemont College in Pennsylvania.

Singing in Dark Times: Trying to Praise the Mutilated World – A Workshop with Donna Hilbert

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Singing in Dark Times: Trying to Praise the Mutilated World – A Workshop with Donna Hilbert

Workshop Leader: Donna Hilbert
Date: Tuesday, November 18
Time: 4pm Pacific (7pm Eastern) – Please check your local time.
Duration: 2-hours
Cost: $25 (sliding scale)

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~ About The Workshop ~ 

In this workshop, we will look at poems through the lens of Adam Zagajewski’s seminal poem, Try to Praise the Mutilated World, as well as poems in a similar vein. We’ll consider poets such as WS Merwin, Wendell Berry, and Danusha Lameris. Poets will be invited to reflect on words that aim to help us carry the weight of life in tumultuous times and then write our own words in conversation with these voices.

~ About The Workshop Leader ~ 

Donna Hilbert’s latest book is Enormous Blue Umbrella, Moon Tide Press, 2025. Work has appeared in journals and broadcasts including Eclectica, Gyroscope, Rattle, Sheila Na Gig, ONE ART, Cholla Needles, TSPoetry, VerseDaily, Vox Populi, The Writer’s Almanac, anthologies including Boomer Girls, The Widows’ Handbook, The Poetry of Presence I & II, The Path to Kindness, The Wonder of Small Things, Love Is For All Of Us, What the House Knows, Poetry Goes The Movies. She writes and leads workshops from her home base in Long Beach, California.

Rescheduled: Visibility and Book Sales: Marketing Your Small Press Book (Thursday, 8/28/25)

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>>> Rescheduled for Thursday, August 28th. <<<

Visibility and Book Sales: Marketing Your Small Press Book
Instructor: John Sibley Williams
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2025
Time: 3:30-6:00pm Eastern

>>> Tickets available <<<

Writing Through Illness: A Workshop with Karly Randolph Pitman

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Writing through Illness: A Workshop with Karly Randolph Pitman

“Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you. Your feelings need you. Go home and be there for all of these things.”  – Thich Nhat Hanh

Illness – of all shapes and forms – is a complex threshold. As we journey through her doors, we meet change, loss, fear, pain, grief, fatigue, gratitude, wonder, awe – the full mystery of what it means to be human and to live in a human body.

In this online playshop, we’ll explore, write and share our way into a more generous, deeper connection with the complexity that arises when we host an illness in our body’s ‘guest house.’ We’ll use writing practices, presence, and poetry to meet these guests and nurture a more regenerative, curious, and compassionate relationship with our bodies, hearts, and minds. 

What might illness have to share with us? How might it meet us? How might we meet it?

This workshop is open to anyone who’s been touched by illness – their own, a loved one’s, a friend’s – and all kinds of illness – physical illness, mental illness, chronic illness, sudden illness. All levels of writing experience are welcome.

If you can’t join us live, we’ll record our time together so you can explore it later at your own pace. 

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An image, like a poem, powerfully conveys where we’re headed.

Let Your Grief Wash You to Another Shore 

Used with the kind permission of the artist, Eddy Sara.

Find more about Eddy Sara on his website.

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Writing Through Illness
Instructor: Karly Randolph Pitman
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2025
Time: 6:00-8:00pm Eastern
Price: Sliding Scale
Event will be recorded

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~ About The Workshop Leader ~

Karly Randolph Pitman is a writer, teacher, poet, presenter, and mental health facilitator who helps people nurture a more compassionate relationship with their struggles. She’s the founder of Growing Humankindness, a gentle approach towards overeating, writes a reader supported poetry newsletter, O Nobly Born, and offers writing and mindfulness workshops to nurture self awareness and self compassion. She lives in Austin, Texas where she’s cared for the underbelly of long covid and autoimmune illness for the past five years. Her journeys through depression and illness continue to soften, teach and open her. In all she remains in awe of the human heart.

Write without Fear. Edit without Mercy. — A Workshop with Tresha Faye Haefner

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Workshop: Write without Fear. Edit without Mercy.
Instructor: Tresha Faye Haefner
Date: Thursday, April 10
Time: 6:00-8:00pm Eastern

Please note: This is a Virtual Workshop held via Zoom.

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To register:

Make a payment using one of the following methods:

Price: $25 (payment options – Stripe / PayPal / Venmo / CashApp / Zelle / Personal Check)

Please contact Mark Danowsky, Editor-in-Chief of ONE ART, with any questions and to confirm registration.

Contact: oneartpoetry@gmail.com

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Workshop Description:

One reviewer said of Kim Addonizio’s work that not a word was unnecessary or out of place. How do poets write poems where every word feels essential? In this workshop, we will look at poets such as Addonizio, Hayes, Oxenhandler, Myles as examples. Then, we will generate some writing and edit it down without mercy. Participants will be challenged to both say the unsayable, and then murder many of their darlings* until their poems are trimmed down to the most surprising, essential language. (*no darlings will actually be harmed in the writing of these poems.)

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About The Instructor:

Tresha Faye Haefner is an award-winning poet, performer, educator and general facilitator of the fun times. Her work has been widely published and garnered several awards, including the Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize, and the Pangea Prize. Her first book, When the Moon Had Antlers (Pine Row Press, 2024) was a finalist for the Glass Lyre Poetry Prize. She is best described as an eco-poet, travel-poet, and performance poet. She writes words for the stage, page, coffee shop, words for sitting under a tree alone, and words for reading to someone you love while rowing them down a river towards dawn.

In addition to writing her own poems about nature and other mysteries, her most important role is to help others feel safe and inspired to write work of their own. Most importantly, she is founder of The Poetry Salon, an online learning community where poets meet to share inspiration, education and support as they write together and cheer one another on! You can get new information, updates and invitations to events at The Poetry Salon by joining The Poetry Salon on Substack at ThePoetrySalonStack.Substack.com.

WRITING THE CATASTROPHE: SINGING IN DARK TIMES — A Workshop with Donna Hilbert

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WRITING THE CATASTROPHE: SINGING IN DARK TIMES

“Redemption depends on the tiny fissure in continuous catastrophe.” – Walter Benjamin

“I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.” – William Stafford

“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.” – Bertolt Brecht

About his own work, Stanley Kunitz has said: “The poem comes in the form of a blessing— ‘like rapture breaking on the mind,’ as I tried to phrase it in my youth. Through the years, I have found this gift of poetry to be life-sustaining, life-enhancing, and absolutely unpredictable. Does one live, therefore, for the sake of poetry? No, the reverse is true: poetry is for the sake of the life.”

“As more and more of contemporary life is forced into the present moment, there seem to be fewer mechanisms which allow the past to be fully absorbed and lived once it has
happened. It has become harder to experience grief since it is a retroactive emotion which requires subsequent returns to the loss over a period of time. Only through such returns
may one hope for the very real gain of transforming losses of various kinds into meaningful contributions to our own becoming . . . . Here I am speaking not only of the loss one experiences in the death of a loved one, but also of those diminishments of being which become known gradually, as when child or parent or lover discovers piecemeal the signs of neglect and lost trust.
Poems have long been a place where one count on being able to feel, in a bodily sense, our connection to loss. I say bodily to emphasize the way poems act not only upon the mind and spirit, but also upon the emotions which release the bodily signs of feeling—so that we weep, laugh, are brought to anger, feel loneliness, or the comfort of companionship . . . .”
– Tess Gallagher from “The Poem as a Reservoir for Grief” The American Poetry Review

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About The Workshop Instructor

Donna Hilbert’s latest book is Enormous Blue Umbrella from Moon Tide Press, following Threnody, Moon Tide, 2022. A second edition of Gravity: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming from Moon Tide in early 2025.Work has appeared in numerous journals and broadcasts including Cultural Daily, Gyroscope, Rattle, Sheila Na Gig, ONE ART, Vox Populi, The Writer’s Almanac, Lyric Life, and anthologies including The Poetry of Presence volumes I & II, The Path to Kindness, The Wonder of Small Things, I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing. www.donnahilbert.com

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Tickets & Registration

WRITING THE CATASTROPHE: SINGING IN DARK TIMES
Instructor: Donna Hilbert
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Time: 6:00-8:00pm Eastern (3:00-5:00pm Pacific) via Zoom
Price: $25 (payment options – Stripe / PayPal / Venmo / CashApp)

To register for this workshop, please email Mark Danowsky (ONE ART’s Editor-in-Chief) —  oneartpoetry@gmail.com 

Upcoming Workshop — “Stealth Formalism”: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Formal Verse

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“Stealth Formalism”: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Formal Verse


Instructor: Nicole Caruso Garcia
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Time: 6:00-8:00pm (Eastern)
Price: $25 (payment options – Stripe / PayPal / Venmo / CashApp)

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Overview

“Stealth Formalism”: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Formal Verse

How do the most skilled formalists of today craft poems that sound fresh and contemporary, poems that read as naturally as free verse? Some poets are such ninjas of sound and sense that readers might reach the end of a sonnet before even realizing it is a sonnet. On the other hand, formal poems can be proficient and technically correct, yet still sound forced, archaic, stilted, or unintentionally humorous. Bad poetry, oh noetry! In this workshop, we will explore examples to demystify the common pitfalls of formal verse, learning techniques for leaping over them and onto the solid footing of effective poems. (Participants may wish to bring a poem draft “just in case” there’s time to review a few as samples for future revision.)

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About The Workshop Leader

Nicole Caruso Garcia’s full-length debut OXBLOOD (Able Muse Press) recently received the International Book Award for narrative poetry. Her work appears in Best New Poets, Light, Mezzo Cammin, ONE ART, Plume, Rattle, RHINO, and elsewhere. She serves as associate poetry editor at Able Muse and as an executive board member at Poetry by the Sea, an annual poetry conference in Madison, CT. Visit her at nicolecarusogarcia.com.