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!
We are excited to hold Open Mic Night in hybrid form, both in-person at HVWC and virtually! Physical and virtual doors open at 7:20 pm for event starting at 7:30 pm. Due to popular demand to participate, we’ve had to limit the amount of readers to 20. All performers, whether “in person” or on Zoom, […]
In this four hour poetry intensive, will we will discover ways to encourage delightful oddness within our poems through experimentation, discussion, and generative prompts. First, we will first explore the art of persona poetry: discussing how the "I" in persona poems differs from the "lyric I,” and how the safe distance created by this difference […]
Richard Wilbur said, “One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable by clear, precise confrontations.” When it feels like the world is ending, we notice things around us in a new way. Our attention becomes very present to detail. That's what fueled my latest book of poems, Pandemic City, written while […]
This poetry workshop will center on ways to activate the political self which often lies dormant. Whether it be the politics of tyranny, the politics of relationship dynamics, of power dynamics or of feminism, all of us are political. In this workshop, we will focus on generative writing prompts that encourage the prompting of speaking […]
Please join us for our warm and welcoming Open Write Nights, recurring monthly on the FOURTH MONDAY of each month. Your host Sarah Rizzuto will facilitate an evening of generative writing, story swapping and community building via ZOOM Open Write is $10 or FREE to members. If you are a member you should have received a […]
The SHAC SHAKE! is an ongoing weekly drop-in early childhood music, movement, and story-time workshop presented in partnership with the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective (SHAC). AGE GROUP: toddler – kindergarten COST: $20 suggested donation INSTRUCTOR: Josh Lewis WHEN: Fridays, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Josh Lewis is a director, writer, performer and Founder and Artistic […]
As poets, we’re often tasked with not only precision—the right word—but concision. Poetry can dive deep in a short space; that’s a special virtue of the short poem. It can be surprisingly difficult to write one—or to trim the fat from a longer piece. We’ll talk about the virtues of “slashing and burning” as well […]
Every writer, even the most prolific, experiences writer’s block at some point. Regardless of why we have become stuck in our writing, it is possible to return to the simple joy of putting words on the page. We can even invite our demons to the table, by using writer’s block as a source of inspiration. […]
Jean Valentine said, “I’m interested in what can’t be said, in what literally can’t be said…if I could I’d write in silence.” Louise Glück wrote, “I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made […]
Please join HVWC and poet & SHP Advisory Committee member, Estha Weiner, as we welcome three wonderful poets from Upstate New York to read on Zoom on Sunday June 30th from 4-5:30pm. Each poet will read and engage with the audience for a Q&A. Philip Memmer is the author of six books of poems, most […]
