Repeat As Needed: Responding To Badass Women

Join this generative poetry workshop where we dive into the work of badass women poets and write with intention in response to their words. We’ll explore poems by Victoria Chang, Denise Duhamel, Diamond Forde, Beth Gylys, Dorianne Laux, Maureen Seaton, & Patricia Smith. We’ll spend the majority of the session writing, with space for optional sharing at the end. You’ll leave this workshop with at least five new drafts!

*Workshops hosted by Small Harbor Publishing serve as both creative spaces and fundraising initiatives. Facilitators receive 60% of ticket proceeds, while the remaining 40% supports SHP’s mission to support authors and sustain operations. All workshops are available at $15 or $25, whichever works for you. A limited number of BIPOC scholarships are available — please email operations@smallharborpublishing for additional information.

Dustin Brookshire’s (he/him) debut poetry full-length collection, For All Of Us Faggots, is forthcoming from Iron Oaks Editions in March 2027. He is the author of five chapbooks: Repeat As Needed (Harbor Editions, 2025), Never Picked First For Playtime (Harbor Editions, 2023), Love Most Of You Too (Harbor Editions, 2021), To The One Who Raped Me (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012), and Contoured (forthcoming from Lily Poetry), a collection of collaborative contoured villanelles written with Denise Duhamel, Beth Gylys, Kerry Trautman, and Donna Vorreyer. Dustin is co-editor of the Nautilus Silver Medal award-winning Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2023), which was also named to the 2024 “Books All Georgians Should Read” list by Georgia Center for the Book. Editor of the Lambda Literary Award finalist anthology When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton (Harbor Editions, 2024), which received a Kirkus Reviews rating of “Get it!,” find him online at dustinbrookshire.com.