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      THE POETRY LAB PRESENTS
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A generative writing workshop exploring poetry, disability, embodiment, and care.

Thursday, January 22 - February 12, 2026

5:00pm PT - 7:00pm PT
via Zoom

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Explore Disabled Poetics.

Write Into Your Own Truth.

This workshop invites you to read poems by disabled writers and craft your own writing in response. You’ll question how disability is shaped by culture, how state violence punishes disabled bodies, and what a liberated disabled future might look like. Everyone is welcome regardless of (dis)ability.

What This Workshop Is About.

Across guided 2-hour sessions, you will:

  • Read poetry by disabled poets exploring embodiment, illness, survival, identity, and resistance

  • Study a range of voices including torrin a. greathouse, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Raymond Antrobus, Liv Mammone, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, and more

  • Write into your own relationship with disability through intentional, supported prompts

  • Consider big questions:

    • Who gets to be disabled?

    • Who is worthy of care?

    • How is disability punished or erased?

    • What does a disabled future look like?

This workshop blends poetry, inquiry, and community. You’ll generate new work, expand your understanding, and explore the emotional and political dimensions of disability poetics.

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Enrollment options.

We offer installment pay plans. Please contact us if you need assistance registering for class.

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$156.00
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$78.00 every month for 2 months

Prefer smaller installments? Click here for 3-Pay

Apply for the Disability Poetics BIPOC Scholarship

There is 1 fully funded seat available.

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Class begins Thursday, January 22, 2026
and continues January 29, February 5, and 12

All sessions are live via Zoom from 5:00pm PT - 7:00pm PT

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You will receive access to the online classroom where all class materials will be posted.

Important dates.

Please mark your calendar for class!

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Who This Workshop Is For.

This space welcomes:

  • Disabled poets

  • Chronically ill poets

  • Poets exploring trauma, embodiment, or care

  • Writers who are new to disability-centered conversations

  • Anyone curious about the intersections of disability, identity, and craft

You do not need to identify as disabled to participate. If you’re here to learn, reflect, and write with care, you belong.

Live closed captions are available via Zoom. Slide decks and recordings are available upon request, and on-camera participation is always optional.

About the Instructor.

Sara Beth Brooks (she/they)

is a queer and disabled self-taught poet and teaching artist. Their work has appeared in Squawk Back, Eunoia Review, Rogue Agent, Tiny Spoon Literary Magazine, and more. They have been supported by Seventh Wave, The Poetry Society of New York, and The Heart of It.

Sara Beth brings lived experience, artistic rigor, and a strong commitment to disability justice to every workshop they teach.

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