Jeanine’s Poetry Tutorial

Introductory/Intermediate/ Advanced

This four-person class is a yearlong journey through craft, intention, and ideas. We read essays on poetry and poetics by writers such as Natasha Trethewey, Dorothea Lasky, Theodore Roethke, and Carl Phillips, engage with diverse selections of poems, and read full chapbooks (Year 3) and books (Year 4) to discuss, understand, and emulate. Whatever the level, students workshop a poem weekly, lead discussions on each other's work, and work with generative writing prompts, creating their own goals to meet throughout the year. Year 1 focuses on writing and revising; Year 2 students commit to submitting to 100 journals; Year 3 & Year 4 finish manuscripts to submit for publication.

Year 1: Writing & Revising

Year 2: Publishing in Journals

Year 3: Chapbooks

Year 4: Full-length manuscripts

This class is available by application on August 1. Selected students will be notified by August 22. In the 2025-26 school year, Level 1 & Level 3 will be offered. 

Feedback from previous students:

"My chapbook and full-length manuscripts exist only because of our workshop. 50% of your tutorial students have had their chapbooks either accepted or chosen as a finalist. That’s an amazing track record."

"Thanks, Jeanine. Now I feel like I know you - others have sung your praises for years!"