June 1 - 20, 2026: Naropa Summer Writing Program, Boulder, CO

METABOLIC THRUM

• Directed by Anne Waldman (Founder), Jeffrey Pethybridge, Swanee Astrid

  Value & Ethos of sonic transmission & printshop POETICS where the VOICE of SMALL PRESS eternally returns to the WHEEL.

  Celebrate Allen Ginsberg’s Centenary!

  Esteemed guest artists each week w/ Workshops, lectures, panels, conversations, dharma art, cine-poetics, readings, printing, interdisciplinary collaboration

  50 years of Poetics Discourse with the Best Minds with No Help from A I !!!!

• Orientation: May 31, 2026

  Week 1: June 1-6 2026

  Week 2: June 8-13 2026

  Week 3: June 15-20 2026

• Catalog, 10+ Scholarships, Registration dates in Spring 2026

  The Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics goes beyond the focus of craft approach, pushing participants to bend genres, take risks, and enliven the creative writing process.

  In a creative writing program that is a “Golden Standard of it’s kind” (NEA grant committee) students, poets, fiction writers, musicians, editors, translators, Buddhist teachers, performance artists, and more meet for three transformative weeks on Naropa University’s campus in Boulder, Colorado.

  Here, we invoke and continue the “Outrider” lineage — a legacy of revolutionary scholarship and counter-poetics that is an ongoing experiment in creative freedom.

  Whether your medium is poetry, fiction, experimental theater, or a combination of genres, Summer Writing Program will help you flush with creative truth-seeking to refine/find what is at the heArt of your craft.

  Change the composition of your summer, your work, and your life.

  If you would like to participate in continuing the legacy of Summer Writing Program, please consider making a charitable donation to SWP the Summer Writing Program Gift Fund today!