Join Us for Poetry Hours
Every Friday at noon, we open our digital doors to invite poets to come write poetry together on Zoom for one hour. You are invited!
The format is simple. We’ll begin with a brief welcome (around ten minutes), then move into quiet writing time. Cameras and mics off. Just you, the page, and the knowledge that others are writing alongside you.
Why Poetry Hours?
Most of us don’t need more instruction. We need time. And maybe a little company.
Poetry Hours is an attempt to make space for both. It’s designed for poets who want a reason to sit down, open a notebook, and write—without performing, explaining, or proving anything.
It has been amazing to see how much we can get done when someone says, “Show up on Friday and write.”
How to Join
If you want to join, just sign up on this Google Form and we’ll make sure you get the reminder email every Friday morning.
Or just click the link below on Friday at noon (central time):
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89334716890?pwd=fl1F69MgEUvGqJuwvIidEBmCDgGO7J.1
(Pssst…. Poetry Hours veterans. We’ve got a new link now. Be advised.)
There's something beautifully subversive about carving out weekly space for poetry in a world that prizes productivity metrics over creative exploration. The practice of gathering specifically to write - not to workshop, not to perform, but simply to create alongside others - honors the communal nature of art that we've lost in our increasingly isolated digital existence. Writing can feel solitary, but the ancients knew better: poets gathered in symposiums, storytellers around fires, scribes in scriptoriums. This modern iteration via Zoom is its own kind of fellowship, proving that physical distance doesn't have to mean creative isolation. Every Friday at noon becomes a small rebellion against the tyranny of the urgent.
This sounds cool! Unfortunately it’s smack in the middle of my workday but hopefully I can make it sometime!