Celebrating the Visiting Teaching Artists of Forms & Features

This online poetry reading shines a light on the creative work of six writers, artists, educators, and Visiting Teaching Artists from the Poetry Foundation's Forms & Features workshop series: Michelle Alexander, Casey Larkin Mazer Carsel, Lara Mimosa Montes, Danielle Pieratti, Samyak Shertok, and Leigh Sugar.

Forms & Features is the Poetry Foundation’s series of free online creative writing workshops for adults. To learn about current and upcoming offerings, including workshops created and led by Visiting Teaching Artists, please visit our Events page.

Inspired by the works in this reading, read and write your own poems with the guidance of the following:

Michelle Alexander on ekphrasis in “UnWoven Between the Disciplines: Poetry and Art”
Casey Larkin Mazer Carsel on crafting the historical poem in “Walking Backwards into the Future”
Lara Mimosa Montes on the importance of pleasure in “If We Could Just Gaga Our Grammar: On Play and the Creative Impulse”
Danielle Pieratti on the poetics of translation in “Poet’s Version: Translation as Creative Practice”
Samyak Shertok on alchemy and the Beloved in “Cooking Ghazal”
Leigh Sugar on the self-revelation of erasure in “Otherwise Hidden, or Self-Erasure: A Teleology”