Check out the lineup for Black Lawrence Press events!
How Musical is Poetry
Craft Workshop
Instructor: Antonis Bargilly
Date: 8/11/2026
Time: 8:00 – 9:30 PM Eastern, Virtual
Fee: Free
In this workshop, Antonis Bargilly explores musicality in poetry, from Homer’s epics to today’s poetry. From historically observing the way poetry was written and sung/recited, to references throughout the centuries about musicality in poetry, Antonis collects the tools to devise a list of elements in poetry that are musical, and explores the relationship of one art to the other, and their common starting point. With examples that highlight the parallel function of these two arts that shared a womb, participants get a rare insight to poetry’s musical aspect, and its significance and effect on the poetic outcome. Antonis discusses how these elements exist in poetry, regardless of the poet’s intention, how there’s a relationship between the musical elements of the work and its literary elements, and how conscious use of the musical elements elevates the work and avoids potential randomness and dissonance.
Antonis Bargilly was born in 1977 in Cyprus. He is a musician — a violinist and composer. During his studies in music, he became fascinated by ancient Greek music, and started studying the relation between music and meter, as well as music and poetry. At the same time, he started reading and writing poetry.
Drama without Dragons: Writing Lightly Plotted Fiction
Craft Workshop
Instructor: Kevin Fenton
Date: 9/8/2026
Fee: Free!
Hello My Name Is: Tension and Tenderness of Naming in Poetry
Generative Workshop
Instructor: Livia Meneghin
Date: 9/13/2026
Fee: Free!
Date: 9/29/26
Time: 10 AM – 6 PM
Location: Harlem State Office Building Plaza 163 West 125th Street, Harlem, NY
Fee: Free!
What are You So Afraid Of?: The Poetics of Turning Inward Toward Fear
Generative Workshop
Instructor: Kyla-Yen Giffin
Date: 10/4/2026
Fee: Free!
Writing Your Memoir in Essays: Discover, Uncover, Recover
Workshop Series
Instructor: Christopher Locke
Date: October 4, 11, 18, 25 and November 1, 8
Fee: $295
Personal essays are revelations. In this workshop, we will explore how a memoir-in-essays is an exacting and viable artform capable of contradiction, vulnerability, inquiry, grief, humor, memory, rage, longing, landscape and beauty, all at once. Talk about your heavy lifting.
Through generative writing, experimentation, and discussion, workshop members will develop 4-6 substantial new essays or hybrid pieces. We will take multiple contemporary essays as models, discuss revision strategies, and cover the various techniques for building essays and fragments into a cohesive manuscript.
In addition to their completed essays, workshop members will leave the course with blueprints for their manuscripts along with submission and publication strategies.
Form-enomenon: Celebrating Queer Subversions of Poetic Forms
Craft Workshop
Instructor: Anne Marie Wells
Date: 10/13/2026
Less Is More: Structuring a Short Story
Craft Workshop
Instructor: Piper White
Date: 11/9/2026
Found Poetry
Generative Workshop
Instructor: Christine Huang
Date: 12/6/2026
Courage and Questions: Writing into the Unknown
Craft Workshop
Instructor: Allison Macy-Steines
Date: 12/8/2026