Academy of American Poets: Literary Seminars
This Pride Month, join the Academy of American Poets and Dawn Lundy Martin for "Queering the Poetic Line", a three-part virtual seminar starting June 23, 2026. Exploring queer and trans poetry through syntax, silence, lineation, and form, the seminar features works by Julian Talamantez Brolaski, francine j. harris, Eileen Myles, Justin Phillip Reed, and Ronaldo V. Wilson.
Participants will examine how poetry can unsettle language, breath, and meaning itself. We'll take a deep dive into poems that utilize the line and line break—not as obligation but as opportunity. In this opportunity we will find syntactical derangement, transgressions of sense and breath, fits of tension, seemingly necessary caesurae, and more.
Sessions: Tuesdays, June 23, June 30, and July 7, 2026 (virtual)
6-7pm EDT.
Registration is $150 general / $120 Academy members.
Recordings will be available to registered participants.
