New Live Classes for Writers and Readers from our Friends at Five Things I've Learned. |
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Coming soon: Jane Hirshfield, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Ann Hood, Maggie Smith, Will Hermes, Sarah Fay, and Maurice Carlos Ruffin. |
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Five Things I’ve Learned makes it easy for artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers to share live, online classes with people who admire them as much as we do.
Every Five Things I’ve Learned session is a deliberately handmade, personal class designed to share the essential ideas and experiences of a lifetime. No two classes are alike, but every class first takes place live, online. The video archive of every session is subsequently available on-demand, whenever and wherever you like. Visit myfivethings.com to discover personal video invitations to great live classes coming soon from Jane Hirshfield, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Ann Hood, Maggie Smith, Will Hermes, Sarah Fay, and Maurice Carlos Ruffin. And discover almost 150 more great on-demand classes available anytime from creative thinkers of all sorts—including from writers Camille Dungy, Sheryl Strayed, Peter Orner, Susan Orlean, Rebecca Makkai, Andre Dubus III, Isabel Allende, Brooke Warner, and more. Use the discount code:
LITHUB$10 during checkout to save ten dollars on your purchase of a single class ticket. |
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Live and Online Sunday Night! |
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This Sunday, April 27: Join award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield in this live, two-hour class and discover the ways that poems’ original seeing can be invited, recognized, and worked with to open new depth, openness, and possibility—in words and in lives.
Jane, described in The New York Times Magazine as “writing some of the most important poems in the world today,” is also a justly celebrated, universally admired poet of interior life. Thrillingly and consistently, her work always finds a way to say yes to the complexity, difficulties, and losses that any life brings. She is the author of ten much-honored books of poetry, two now-classic collections of essays, and four books presenting the work of world poets from the deep past.
This Sunday, Jane will share all she understands about the transformative power of discovery in poetry—the ways that poems can deepen perception, invite openness, and expand what is possible both on the page and in life. If you’re a poet, a writer, or any kind of reader, you’re sure to leave Jane’s session inspired to see the world—and your work—with fresh eyes. You’ll also experience a rare chance to discover her own practical strategies for uncovering hidden insights in writing, from the first draft to revision.
“My hope for those who take this class,” Jane writes in her personal introduction to her class, “whether as poetry’s writers or readers, is that you will find your experience of poems a little shifted—that words’ windows will feel more open, that poems’ choices and music will feel deepened in focus, but also more free, more experimental in spirit, less worried, less fraught. I hope to leave in your pocket, pen, writer’s tool chest or reader’s awareness, some specific strategies of expansion to try in those times you may find yourself, mid-draft or mid-life, at a loss. I hope, most of all, that you’ll feel in your life, your writing, and your reading some sense of increased possibility, some reminder of limitless abundance. There’s always something more and new to discover.”
We couldn’t be more pleased to welcome Jane as she hosts her upcoming class. And we’re proud to present this class in partnership with the Conscious Writers Collective, the online writing platform and global writing community designed around the belief that rigorous writing instruction, a dedicated community of writers, and opportunities to learn from visiting experts should not be exclusive to an MFA.
Find out more, and view Jane’s personal video invitation to this upcoming class by following the button below. |
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More great classes coming soon to myfivethings.com |
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Monday, April 28: Join writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras in the fourth of our series of live, two-hour conversations with Matthew Zapruder. Discover the Five Things She’s Learned about writing and creativity—and about the artistic necessity to write from the emotional landscape of crisis.
Find out more about the ongoing series, Five Things I’ve Learned about Maintaining a Creative Practice in the Chaos, and view Ingrid’s personal video invitation to this upcoming class by following the button below. |
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Sunday, May 4: Join award-winning author and teacher Ann Hood, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to bring focus to a singular slice of your life in ways that produce the story that you want to read—and write.
Find out more, and view Ann’s personal video invitation to this upcoming class by following the button below. |
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Tuesday, May 6: Join writer and poet Maggie Smith in the last of our series of live, two-hour conversations with Matthew Zapruder. Discover the Five Things She’s Learned about what it means to prioritize your creative practice in ways that allow you to stay productive and feel most like yourself—no matter what the rest of your life looks like. Find out more about the full upcoming series, Five Things I’ve Learned about Maintaining a Creative Practice in the Chaos, and view Maggie’s personal video invitation to this upcoming class by following the button below.
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Wednesday, May 7: Join culture journalist, author, and teacher Will Hermes for this live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how to articulate and share the emotional impact of songs you love—how to illuminate their meaning, amplify their power, and deepen the listening experience for yourself and your readers. Find out more, and view Will’s personal video invitation to this upcoming class by following the button below. |
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Thursday, May 8: Join writer, editor, educator, and entrepreneur Sarah Fay in this live two-hour class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the steps you can take today to become a literary entrepreneur able to sustain your craft on your own terms.
Find out more, and view Sarah’s personal video invitation to this upcoming class by following the button below. |
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Sunday, May 18: Join writer and teacher Maurice Carlos Ruffin in his live, two-hour class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how to make the most of your one opportunity to announce yourself to the world—and to set the tone for the writing life you want to have.
Find out more, and view Maurice’s personal video invitation to this upcoming class by following the button below. |
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