All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In March, we explore ghazals, intricate Eastern lyrics that Agha Shahid Ali described as “ravishing disunities.”

Together, we will read and discuss a wide variety of poems and conclude with a guided creative writing workshop, where participants will compose an original ghazal.

Read, discuss, and write poems with Maggie Queeney of the Poetry Foundation and the Jesse Brown VA Palliative Care Team. Monthly meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 12:00 PM–1:00 PM in the Journey Room of the Jesse Brown VA.

Light refreshments are provided. Open to all Veterans, family members, caregivers, and staff.

Presented by the Poetry Foundation in collaboration with Jesse Brown VA

All are welcome to a discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In March, we read and discuss the pastoral, a type of nature poetry that traditionally praises an idealized rural life.

The group will explore a wide variety of poems and conclude with a guided workshop, where participants will compose original pastorals. To register, please email info@compoundyellow.com.

All are welcome to a discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In March, we focus on rhyme, a correspondence of sound that Rilke called the “goddess of secret and ancient coincidences.”

The group will explore a wide variety of poems and conclude with a guided creative writing workshop, where participants will compose an original poem. To register, email library@poetryfoundation.org.

All are welcome to read, discuss, and write poems with Maggie Queeney of the Poetry Foundation. Meetings are held on the second Monday of every month at 12:00 PM–1:00 PM at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Healthcare Center.

Light refreshments are provided. Open to all Veterans, family members, caregivers, and staff.

Presented by the Poetry Foundation in collaboration with Captain James A. Lovell Federal Healthcare Center

The Gaithersburg Book Festival is a free annual celebration of great books and great writing that has made its mark as one of the nation’s top literary events. More than 100 featured best-selling and award-winning authors – including MT Anderson, Tom Angleberger, Meg Waite Clayton, E.J.

Worldbuilding! Creating a whole new world is a daunting task. Within pages or even paragraphs, an author needs to clearly establish its rules, introduce the major players, give them all motivations that bring them together as the action comes to a head, with the ultimate goal of leaving everyone profoundly changed by the final page. Whew! In this workshop, we'll close read the opening pages of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins to examine how the narrative lays the groundwork for establishing a new world and play with creating one of our own.  

In this workshop with multi-genre writer, educator and interdisciplinary artist, Anastacia-Renee, participants will close-read work written by contemporary and queer writers and create multiple pieces, which will mirror the writers in terms of format and topic, while simultaneously creating and queering their own poems. We will close with a workshop and discussion regarding queer appropriation as well as the difference between writing queer characters and writing from a queer perspective.

Attention Queens writers—both experienced and new-to-writing: free creative writing classes taught by the best in Queens!

Newtown Literary Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting prose and poetry in Queens, in partnership with Queens Public Library, is offering free creative writing classes.

Our next class will be led by Victor LaValle on Saturday, March 7th from 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. at Queens Public Library at Forest Hills at 108-19 71st Ave:

“What’s Going On? Writing Active Stories”

Whether you’ve been writing for years, just want to get started, or are ready to reboot your writing practice, the Lansdowne Writers’ Workshop will provide you with the support and focused quiet you need to access your authentic voice and write your deepest, most honest, stories. The first hour of each session is devoted to a writing prompt. The second hour is available for students wishing to receive verbal and written feedback on a piece of writing and learn how to take it to the next level.