The History and Practice of Queer Poetics: a 4-Week Intensive with Holly Lyn Walrath starts Monday, June 1st, 2026

Class Starts Monday, June 1st, 2026 Now Enrolling Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button to talk with us.  Led by Holly Lyn Walrath, a writer, editor, and publisher. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Analog, and Flash Fiction Online. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Glimmerglass Girl (2018), Numinose Lapidi (2020), and The Smallest of Bones (2021). She holds a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. In 2019, she launched Interstellar Flight Press, an indie SFF publisher dedicated to publishing underrepresented genres and voices. This workshop is an intersectional primer on LGBTQIA+ writers throughout the history of poetry. We’ll explore poets like Walt Whitman, Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde, but also the contemporary queer poets who have catapulted into the mainstream, like Jericho Brown and Danez Smith. We’ll write poems alongside and inspired by the voices