Naropa University, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

This program features several reading series, such as the 4x4 student reading series, the MFA graduation readings, and the What Where Series of visiting writers. Students attend workshops with visiting writers and artists in the Kerouac School’s renowned Summer Writing Program. Over sixty guests visit each year, offering students the opportunity to be in dialogue with a community of writers. Programming includes workshops, lectures, panels, readings, special events, and more. Students may also study translation.

The program collaborates with the theatre department in embodied poetics and has a contemplative requirement to be completed in meditation, yoga, ikebana, or Contemplative Poetics or Mind Moving. Other features include a seminar in pedagogy, letterpress printing, community teaching through Project Outreach, and the JKS Symposium.