Online, 4 sessions / $395
Members take 10% off
Application required
The application window (January 12–February 6) has closed.
Apply to join a small cohort of students in an advanced poetry workshop with acclaimed poet Layli Long Soldier. Accepted students will workshop their poetry, receiving feedback and offering critique in a small group setting. Most successful applicants will have some prior experience studying poetry and will have published one or more poems in an online or print literary journal. Accepted students should plan to workshop works in progress, with the option to workshop the poetry they've applied with.
How to Apply
Manuscripts of poetry, five pages in length, will be accepted via Submittable. If sending multiple poems, each new poem should begin on a new page. Applications will include a short biographical statement. Students will be notified of their acceptance on February 20th. Accepted students will be asked to enroll promptly or decline their offer so that a spot can be opened for a waitlisted student.
Scholarships
Two scholarships will be awarded. To be considered for a scholarship, check the appropriate box in Submittable and include a short Statement of Need in your application. Students seeking aid will not be considered for unfunded spots, and scholarship decisions cannot be appealed.
Class modality: Online synchronous (real-time attendance required)
Class size: 8 to 12 students
Required textbooks: No
Recorded: Yes
In-class & prompted writing: No
Workshopping & feedback: Yes
Layli Long Soldier is author of the collection Whereas (Graywolf Press, 2017), which won the National Books Critics Circle award, the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her poems and critical work have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review, and BOMB, among many others. In 2015, Long Soldier was awarded a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. She was awarded a Whiting Writer’s Award in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2018. In 2021, she received an Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature and the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize in the UK. Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Bard College. She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and serves as the 2024-25 Endowed Chair at Texas State University. She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Author photo by John Midgley.
