WELCOME TO THE HVWC CALENDAR: home of all our upcoming readings, events and workshops. You can view by list or calendar (see right menu to choose). Click the colored tabs below to show only specific options. Our workshops run as multi-session series or one-day “intensives.” Note, we list the multi-session courses on the first day they meet only. The full dates of the session are described in the course descriptions. You would need to scroll back to the start date if you needed to enroll for something already underway. But do let us know if you want to join something in midstream since we need the blessing of the instructor. Questions? Email us.
Workshops – This category encompasses all one-day and multi-week classes, whether in person or via Zoom.
Readings – Our readings are in many different genres and take place in person, on Zoom, or both!
HVWC Recurring Events – This category encompasses such regular favorites as Open Mic, Open Write, and Submission Sunday.
Special Events – These other creative experiences are sure to interest our creative community!
"In poetry you have a form looking for a subject and a subject looking for a form," writes W.H. Auden.In this workshop we'll try out several twenty-first century poetic forms such as the Bop, the Golden Shovel, and the Fib to see how form itself can influence and inspire what we feel an urgency to […]
Somatic meditation views the body as the fundamental arena of meditation practice. Through specific practices, we observe how the body’s wisdom can serve as a guide in our everyday lives. In this regular group gathering, we’ll explore the view of somatic practice, practice meditation together, and discuss our experiences. This group will be facilitated by Paul […]
Memoir has become an ever more prevalent literary form, popular among readers and writers alike. This workshop will explore alternatives to conventional narrative structure that are well-suited to hybrid forms, where various genres are compiled into one self-contained work. Poetry, essay, drama, realia, journalism and conventional prose narrative are among the genres available to writers […]
This four-hour workshop will begin with an hour-long discussion of mostly inanimate (but also some living) objects or “things”: how to pay attention to them, how to use them in poems. We’ll explore several published poems that feature such “things”—as compelling descriptive details, as metaphors, as speakers (or addressees), and as other (sometimes quirky) occupiers […]
“History is the function of any one of us,” Charles Olson once said. In this workshop we will consider the poet as a witness to history and poetry as document. We will read and discuss poets from various periods in order to understand how their cultural moment impacted their writing and what impact their writing […]
Natalie Tsur and Mariah Lanzer will facilitate an afternoon of generative writing, as well as an informal exchange between attendees’ writing experiences, practices, and recent reads. In doing so, we hope to cultivate an intimate writing community (at no cost!) with the participation of other writers their age (18-25). Therefore, the Young Adult Open Write […]
Please note that this workshop is now sold out! Thanks for all the interest. If you want to be put on the waiting list for this workshop, or have questions about other workshop options, please email [email protected]. The poetic sequence, a deliberate and considered grouping of poems, has an ancient history. It can be built […]
This will be a three-hour poetry workshop with Karen Finley. There will be at least three scholarships awarded for this class. Please email [email protected] with any questions. A mandala is a circular composition of symbols, images and shapes. Mandala in Sanskrit means circle. In our workshop we will create our own mandala either with images […]
In a rare east coast appearance, Brian Turner will teach a two hour Master Class on Craft for the local HVWC community. Don't miss the chance to study with this powerful poet. This class is capped at 10 and will take place in person at HVWC. Brian Turner is the author of five collections of […]
Please join us in person at HVWC in Sleepy Hollow, NY, for poetry & conversation with John Hoppenthaler, Janine Joseph, Michael Klein, & Brian Turner. John Hoppenthaler is the author of four books of poetry, Night Wing over Metropolitan Area, Domestic Garden, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir and Lives of Water, all with Carnegie Mellon University […]
