Commonplace School

A Reading, Writing & Talking Experience with Rachel Zucker

This 10-week online class is for anyone who loves to read and talk, for anyone who makes things or wants to talk about the ethical consequences of making things. Our primary shared text will be The Poetics of Wrongness; discussion topics will likely include photography, the poetics of motherhood, the history of the confessional impulse, what makes something a poem, Anne Sexton, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Toi Derricotte, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Sally Mann, and Robert Frank. Rachel will provide weekly supplemental reading, watching, listening, and writing suggestions and each participant will be invited to influence the content and direction of the experience.

with Rachel Zucker

This 12-week online reading, writing, talking experience with Rachel Zucker is for anyone who makes things or wants to make things! For anyone who wants to strengthen and deepen their creative practice or create a new joyful, dependable creative practice. No previous writing experience is necessary.

Our shared text will be The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. We will meet once a week for 70 minutes and discuss the book, process, and exercises, at the pace of one chapter per week. The group will be limited to seven artists (including me).