Sign up for poetry class & workshop at Berl’s!

During this five-week class, we will explore how poets address the issues of money, class, debt, materialism, work, and value.

We will read and discuss the following books:

MATERIAL GIRL by Laura Jaramillo

COAL MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY by Mark Nowak

WOMEN, MONEY, CHILDREN, GHOSTS by Emily Bludworth de Barrios

SEMIAUTOMATIC by Evie Shockley

VALU-PLUS by Ryan Eckes

All five books are included with the cost of class, $300.

Class meets Tuesday nights from 7:30-9:30

January 29, February 5, 12, 19, 26

at Berl’s Poetry Shop

141 Front Street

DUMBO, Brooklyn

EVERY CLASS we will discuss one poetry book,

EVERY CLASS all attendees will workshop one poem,

and we will have a healthy snack!

Sign up soon! Space is limited!

*This class was inspired by the chapbooks LIVING IN THE LOVE ECONOMY by Patricia Spears Jones and THE DEBT OR THE CRISIS by Ashleigh Lambert.

*Thank you Jared White, Cynthia Arrieu-King, and MC Hyland for helping me compile this reading list.

*The above picture is of two counterfeit fifty dollar bills used at Berl’s. Thanks, dick.