A Poet's Place

A Poet’s Place

Six Thursdays, April 4 — May 9, 6:30-8:30pm

Cost: $125-$195 sliding scale*, no one turned away for lack of funds

Struggling to finish your poems? Need a boost in confidence about sharing them? Join award-winning poet and translator Michael Favala Goldman for a short course in deepening your poetry practice, exploring writing more effective, striking poems, and getting them out into the world. This class will focus on cultivating a daily writing practice, the creative process, revision, submitting to outlets, the creative community, and assembling manuscripts. Class meets in person at 33 Hawley.

To register, please email programs@nohoarts.org with your name, address, and phone number. Payment can be made via PayPal here, or by mailing a check made out to NCFA to PO Box 366, Northampton, MA 01061.

*Payments on the upper end of the sliding scale help support our continued commitment to accessibility, including sliding scale models and the NCFA Community Fund.

Michael Favala Goldman (b.1966) is a poet, jazz clarinetist and translator of Danish literature. Among his seventeen translated books is Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen, which made the New York Times Best 10 Books of 2021 as book three of The Copenhagen Trilogy. Michael’s five books of original poetry include Small Sovereign, which won first place at the 2022 Los Angeles Book Festival. His work has appeared in dozens of publications including The New Yorker, Rattle, and The Harvard Review. He lives in Northampton, MA, where he has been running bi-monthly poetry critique groups since 2018.  https://michaelfavalagoldman.com/