Lily has a wide variety of teaching experience ranging from undergraduate-level poetry instruction (beginner and intermediate) to community writing workshop facilitation to one-on-one poetry consultations. Currently, she facilitates writing circles and teaches poetry workshops through All Ways Writing Collective, as well as collaborates with local libraries, bookstores, and churches to offer poetry programming.
Lily loves collaborating with communities to share the pleasures of poetry! Any of the below programs can be adapted for a variety of ages and skill levels. Please reach out via the Contact form to request a CV or discuss your program needs.
Current & Upcoming Workshops
Thursdays, 7-9pm: All Ways Writing Circle (Creative Arts Workshop, Nyack). Writing is better in community, come write with us! The All Ways Writing Circle offers time, space, community, and inspiration to get some writing done. This is for anyone who wants to write—in any genre—and would benefit from dedicated time. Facilitated by Lily Greenberg, participants will be offered a prompt, approximately 45 minutes to write, then a chance to share their work in a warm and supportive group setting. No experience needed, all genres welcome. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Admission is $12.
Past Workshops
February 16, 2025 “Listening for God Series: How to Hear a Poem” with Grace Hastings Episcopal Church. A workshop that teaches how to receive a poem to allow for the most resonance, literally and spiritually.
November 13, 2024 “How to Read a Book (of Poetry) with Big Red Books. A special event in which an award-winning book of poetry is read aloud using intuitive forms of engagement to better hear the work at hand. Featuring Ada Limón’s Bright Dead Things.
November 5, 2024 “Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop” with Rockland Center for the Arts. In this one-hour workshop led by Lily Greenberg in the RoCA galleries, participants were led through a variety of methods for “ekphastic” poetry, meaning text in response to image, with a focus on perspective.
August 28, 2024 “Blackout Poetry & Sacred Text” Workshop with Grace Nyack Episcopal Church. Blackout poetry, also known as erasure or redacted poetry, is a type of found poetry that involves obscuring a large portion of an existing text to create a new poem. In this one-hour workshop led by Lily Greenberg, we will apply the practice of blackout poetry to several passages of scripture in order to illuminate new meanings from the text.
August 26, 2024 “Poems of Power” Generative Workshop with Montvale Public Library. This all-levels generative poetry workshop offers a series of prompts for participants to tap into when theNa special kind of engagement that’s more akin to classical music-listening than novel-reading, and works best read aloud in community as opposed to quietly alone. So, we’re creating this experience for you. Join Big Red Books and All Ways Writing Collective for this new program in which we will read aloud together an award-winning book of poetry using intuitive forms of engagement to better hear and appreciate the art at hand. Our selected book is Pulitzer Prize-winning The Wild Iris by Louise Glück.
June 26, 2024: How to Read a Book (of Poetry) with Big Red Books. A special event in which an award-winning book of poetry is read aloud using intuitive forms of engagement to better hear the work at hand. Featuring The Wild Iris by Louise Glück.
June 2024: Poetics of Voice Poetry Workshop with All Ways Writing Collective. In this 5-week workshop, we pay particular attention to voice and tone in our poems, experimenting with epistolary forms and persona to clarify and supercharge the speaker. Capped at 8 participants, everyone receives group and individual feedback on 5 poems.
March 6, 2024: Sourdough Starter: Using Other People’s Poetry to Start Your Own at Big Red Books, Nyack. “Good writers borrow, great writers steal,” T.S. Eliot famously said. Rather than encouraging plagiarism, this adage is really about how to read like a writer, and how reading in this way can help you in your own work. In this workshop, we will experiment with using the poetry of others to start poems of your own, with techniques such as collage, blackout, and negative inversion. This is an all-levels workshop with no experience needed; please bring a notebook or computer.
February 7, 2024: “Poems of Power” Generative Writing Workshop at the Nyack Library. This all-levels generative poetry workshop offers a series of prompts for participants to tap into when they feel the least powerful and change that in the space of a poem. Taking cues from Ada Limon, Victoria Chang, and Lucille Clifton, this workshop is designed to create space for new discoveries and unexpected tones.
Mondays January 8 – February 5, 2024: Beginner Poetry Workshop at the Carson McCullers House. In this 5-week poetry workshop, a group of up to 6 poets will explore new methods for creating poems and the basics of workshopping one another’s work. Taught by Lily Greenberg.
January 21, 2024: Grant Writing for Artists Workshop with the Arts Council of Rockland. In this professional development workshop, Lily Greenberg presented on the basics of grant submissions for individual artists, informed by her experience working in grants for Columbia University and successfully acquiring grants as an individual artist.
February 28, 2023: Generative Poetry Writing Workshop at the Nyack Library. This is a generative poetry workshop that teaches strategies (e.g., collaging poems) for using other poems in the creation of your own work.
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