In-person Poetry Workshop with John Yau

Participants will receive preclass communications with writing prompt. Assignment-based discussion, additional free-write with prompts, and workshop of a single piece with feedback from John. Class limited to 8 participants.

John Yau is a poet, critic, fiction writer, founder of Black Square Editions, and he is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic. His recent books of poems include Tell it Slant (University of Chicago, 2023) and Genghis Chan on Drums (Omnidawn, 2021). He has received awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, Academy of American Poets, New York Foundation of the Arts, Ingram Merrill Foundation and the General Electric Foundation. He received the 2017 Jackson Award in Poetry. He is Professor of Critical Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University) and lives in New York.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Lexington Public Library, Central Library, 140 East Main Street, Lexington, United States