David Keplinger

talks and workshops

Since my arrival in Washington, D.C. in 2007, my work outside the university has involved creating communities of writers within the city and in my travels beyond it, leading workshops and classes in poetry writing, reading literature, poetry and yoga, and mindfulness (I am certified by Tara Brach’s and Jack Kornfield’s Mindfulness Teacher Training Program), and engaging with regional writers as well as at Kripalu in Lenox, MA; in Santa Fe, NM; in Pueblo, CO; as well as in Italy, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, and elsewhere. In Washington, these communities sometimes branch out into smaller subsets, and I am still teaching students here who began with me nearly twenty years ago. We started in places like The Writers Center and later met in participants’ homes; then online. This work beyond academe calls together diverse groups of all ages and backgrounds, from college-aged adults to the likes of my dear friend the late Henry Morganthau III, who published his first book at 100 and was featured on NPR.

Please register for workshops marked “spaces still available” only. I will not be able to hold payment for future, unscheduled workshops or create wait-lists.

how It works

Purchase any open workshop and contact me here, telling me which workshop you’ve signed up for. I will also receive a separate notification/receipt from PayPal. When you email me, I’ll send you a prompt and the Zoom link for the session. Please do not send poems ahead of time. On the given date, we will meet on Zoom and workshop your piece, along with all the others: students will share their work as a PDF in the chat and we’ll discuss the poem “live.” I will provide comments on the spot. Each class will home in on some notion involving craft. The length of each workshop, for a minimum of 8 students (maximum number 10), is about two and a half hours. All workshops are for beginner to advanced levels, unless otherwise stated.

One Workshop: $50

New workshops coming soon!