The Poetry Project

The Poetry Project offers various low-cost, sliding-scale, and no-fee workshops and reading groups where we attempt to expand participation in cultural production and discussion and challenge conventional power vectors around who is or can be a student, teacher, or scholar, fostering a learning model that is more circularly discursive. Teachers, experienced writers, and people for whom writing is a new practice work collectively with a shared dedication to creating exciting poetry and exploring a wide range of literary genres, styles, and traditions.

The Poetry Project’s learning community is enriched and honored by the active, formative participation of poets and writers from all different backgrounds and experiences, regardless of previous academic background. We work to make learning resources and opportunities available to as wide and inclusive a community as possible.

The Poetry Project's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

The Poetry Project's programs are made possible with funding from the Poetry Foundation. The Poetry Foundation recognizes the power of words to transform lives and works to amplify poetry and celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience, and share poetry.

The Poetry Project's programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department
of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Scholarship applications for Fall Learning programming have closed.