Fall 2026 OLLI Digital Catalog

ASPIRING POETS (K202-6)

K – Writing

Calling all poets! Explore a new poetry textbook. Study craft, improve your own writing and help your fellow poets improve. Over six weeks during OLLI’s second fall session, students write poems based two chapters from Steve Kowit’s In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet’s Portable Workshop: A Lively and Illuminating Guide for the Practicing Poet. Sign up for either the Monday or Wednesday online session of this course. Note: the Monday session starts on October 19, one day early.

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This offering meets for a total of 6 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Betsey Cullen

CULLEN, BETSEY — B.A., University of Rochester, M.A., Cornell University. Began writing poetry at an OLLI poetry workshop in 2007. Work published in online journals, print journals and anthologies. Second prize-winning chapbook, We Hold the Bones, published in fall 2022.

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