Poetry Workshop 2026

Lineup

• More details about Sherman Alexie

  Sherman Alexie

  Join poet and writer Sherman Alexie for an intimate poetry workshop limited to eight participants. Alexie is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Face, One Stick Song, The Summer of Black Widows, First Indian on the Moon, and The Business of Fancydancing. His writing extends across poetry, novels, short fiction, screenwriting, and young adult literature. His many honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Washington State Arts Commission, a Pushcart Prize, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. He is also a three-time world heavyweight poetry slam champion. (⁠Klinkhart Hall Arts Center) This small-group workshop offers participants the opportunity to spend time working with a writer whose career has crossed literary forms and more than three decades of American poetry and fiction.

• More details about Tina Chang

  Tina Chang

  Chang is the author of four poetry collections: Lion, Hybrida, Of Gods & Strangers, and Half-Lit Houses. Her poetry engages questions of memory, family, history, culture, identity, and language while moving across a range of poetic forms. She is also co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. (⁠Klinkhart Hall Arts Center) Teaching and literary education have been central to Chang’s career. As Brooklyn Poet Laureate, she worked to expand audiences for poetry through youth education and literary programming, and her students have ranged from preschool through postgraduate study. She is currently Director of Creative Writing at Binghamton University. (⁠Klinkhart Hall Arts Center) This small-group workshop offers participants the opportunity to work directly with a poet, educator, and literary advocate whose work explores the possibilities of language across personal, cultural, and historical experience.

• More details about Mary Jo Salter

  Mary Jo Salter

  Salter is a poet, editor, essayist, playwright, and lyricist whose career has been deeply engaged with both the practice and traditions of poetry. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including A Kiss in Space, Open Shutters, A Phone Call to the Future, Nothing by Design, and The Surveyors. She has served as an editor at The Atlantic Monthly, poetry editor of The New Republic, and co-editor of the fourth and fifth editions of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. (⁠Klinkhart Hall Arts Center) Salter’s poetry is particularly noted for its formal inventiveness and engagement with poetic tradition. She taught for many years at Mount Holyoke College and later in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she is now professor emerita. (⁠Klinkhart Hall Arts Center) This small-group workshop offers participants a rare opportunity to work with a poet whose experience encompasses writing, editing, teaching, and a sustained engagement with the forms and history of English and American poetry.

• More details about Paul Muldoon

  Paul Muldoon

  Muldoon is the author of fourteen major collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, Hay, The Annals of Chile, Meeting the British, Quoof, and New Weather. His writing extends well beyond poetry to criticism, opera libretti, children’s books, song lyrics, and radio and television drama, and his poetry has been translated into twenty languages. (⁠Klinkhart Hall Arts Center) His honors include the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters. His work also crosses boundaries between poetry, music, theater, and performance. A longtime participant in the Sharon Springs Poetry Festival, Muldoon returns in 2026 to work with a small group of writers in this limited-capacity workshop.