you are a poet, even if you don’t know it (yet).

if you take my poetry classes, my #1 goal is to prove to you that you can, in fact, write a poem! i work to ensure my classes are accessible, conversation driven, and most importantly, FUN!

  • want to take a workshop with me? please fill out this interest form to let me know what topics you’re interested in and when you’re available!

    • “creativity in constriction: experimenting with form”

      • a 5-week workshop that explored a range of received and invented poetry forms

    • “the choreography of poetry”

      • a virtual, single-session workshop that used dance and movement as a way of embodying poetry

      • the poetry society of new york, 7/9/26

    • “poetry junk journal: creating your personal poetic archive”

      • a 5-week workshop that used the practice of junk journaling to inspire poems and serve as a vessel for documentation

      • brooklyn poets, 5/13/26 - 6/17/26

    • sold out! “i am cringe but i am free: sincerity in poetry”

      • a 5-week workshop that unpacked the definitions of “cringe,” “sentimentality,” and “navel-gazing,” breaking down the barriers that keep us from writing what we truly want, or even need, to write

      • brooklyn poets, 2/4/26 - 3/4/26

    • “attention as resistance”

      • a weekly drop-in class about paying close attention to ourselves and to our surroundings, turning our observations into art and resisting the status quo

      • brooklyn poets, 7/11/25-8/15/25

    • “breathing into the page”

      • a single-session, in-person workshop exploring various yoga practices and integrating them into writing and reading practices

      • brooklyn poets, 8/10/25

    • “like flying a kite: embodying the energy of poetry”

      • a weekly, in-person drop-in class exploring poems that embody movement to help write through feelings of “stuckness”

      • brooklyn poets, 3/28/25-5/16/25

    • “the poetics of daily speech”

      • a weekly, in-person drop-in that explores the beautify of everyday language in poetry and the unique relationship it creates between reader and writer

      • brooklyn poets, 6/19/24-8/7/24

    • “the poetics of daily speech”

      • a single-session, in-person workshop that explores the beautify of everyday language in poetry and the unique relationship it creates between reader and writer

      • poetry society of new york, 4/20/24