Poetry Studies 2025


By Mike Garofalo


Workshops, Classes, Homework

Writing Exercises

Bibliography, Links, Poetry Readings
Notes, Research, Practice

 

I have been studing poetry carefully in 2025.

This webpage organizes my efforts in reading and writing poetry in 2025.

 

1. Workshops by Christopher Luna

My poetry writing exercises:

Lesson 1, April - May, 2025

Lesson 2, June 9, 2025

Lesson 3, June 19, 2025

These workshops, live and online Zoom meetings, are held in Vancouver, Washington. The workshop teacher is is Christopher Luna, MFA. His Printed Matter website has all the information.

Poetry Research: Bibliography

 

2. My Independent Writing Efforts

Notebook One of New Poetry

Quintains, Cinquains, Waka, Tankas

Cloud Hands Blog

25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works

At the Edges of the West
Highway 101 and Hwy 1: Docu-Poem

 

3. Bibliography, Links, Research Studies

John Ashbery

Billy Collins

Valley Spirit Center Poetry Library Bibliography

Quintains Research

Poetry Research

 

4. Poetry Readings Attended 2025

4/26 Vancouver Library Downtown

5/2 Birdhouse Books

5/8 Ghost Town Open Mic @ The Cave

6/6 Birdhouse Books

6/12 Ghost Town Open Mic @ The Cave

 

5. Reviews of Books

Book Reviews by Mike Garofalo

Reviews of my webpages

 

6. Poetry by Mike Garofalo: Online

25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works

Bundled Up: Quintains and Tankas

At the Edges of the West
Highway 101 and Hwy 1: Docu-Poem

Cuttings: Haiku, Senryu, Brief Poems

The Gushen Grove Sonnets

At the Edges of the Fertile West
Highway 99 and Interstate 5

Cantos of the Hands

Poetry Research

Slouching Into Incoherence

The Bottom Line

Reviews of My Webpages

 

7. Objectives in 2025

Publish online 700 of my Quintains

Participate in Poetry Workshops each month

Publish one chapbook/eBook by December

Build an extensive poetry library at my home

Meet with other poets

Take classes in poetry writing

Contnue to expand At the Edges of the West
Highway 101 and 1

 

 

 

 

 

Mike Garofalo lives in Vancouver,
Washington. He worked for 50 years
in city and county public libraries,
and in elementary schools. His degrees
are in philosophy, library science, and
education. He has been a web publisher
since 1998.

Biography

 


 

 

 

25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works

Text Art and Concrete Poetry

 

This document was last edited, revised,
reformatted, added to, relinked,
changed, improved, or modified
by Mike Garofalo
on June 9, 2025.