Please join us on November 7-8, 2026 for the next Poetry Weekend featuring Jane Hirshfield!

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​Don’t miss this interactive workshop with an award-winning poet, essayist and translator.

 

ENTERING THE MIND OF POETRY:

HOW POEMS MOVE

What happens inside a poem—how does it think, feel, and transform our experience of the world?

 

This November, we invite you to step inside the living mind of poetry with acclaimed poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield. Drawing on the insight of critic R. P. Blackmur—that poetry “expands the available stock of reality”—Hirshfield will guide us in uncovering how poems make meaning, shape perception, and deepen awareness.

 

The weekend will include:

• A keynote exploration led by Jane Hirshfield

• Small group discussions (Saturday afternoon & Sunday morning) of selected poems
  

Poems for Saturday (2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST):

• Reading Chinese Poetry Before Dawn by Jane Hirshfield

• Vita Nova by Louise Glück

• Cloud Hands by Arthur Sze

• Equine Aubade by Bob Hicok

• Night Mirror by Li Young Li

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Poems for Sunday (10:00 am - 12:00 noon PST):

• Studying Wu Wei at Muir Beach by Jane Hirshfield

• Leaf Going to Fall by Wallace Stevens

• Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow by Robert Duncan

• White Lilies by Louise Glück

• Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Whether you are a longtime reader of poetry or newly curious, this weekend offers a rare opportunity to engage deeply, think collaboratively, and encounter poetry as a living force.

 

For further details, and to register, please click this link:

Registration

 

We hope you will join us for this enriching and thought-provoking gathering.

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For a list of books about poetry, please click here.

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For lists of the poems that we've discussed during previous Poetry Weekends, click here:

• By author

• By date

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Questions? Please send email to:

Paula Weinberger, p.weinberger41@gmail.com