Poetic Classification

Folk Memory: A Generative Workshop for Writing Folklore with Jessie McCarty

Saturday & Sunday 3:00 pm EDT - 6:00 pm EDT October 18 to October 19, 2025

Oct 3 • 

Jessie McCarty

September 2025

Announcing Pretty Punks: Poems, Portrait, and Play A New Collection by Jessie McCarty (Magra Books, 2025).

Available for pre-order now!

Sep 22 • 

Jessie McCarty

7

2

August 2025

Small Containers

Holding Guilt in Writing

Aug 17 • 

Jessie McCarty

3

2

July 2025

I Am Older Tonight, But the Love is the Same

"...so are the moon and the crescent." - My Emily Dickinson (Howe, pg. 85)

Jul 27 • 

Jessie McCarty

3

April 2025

Mirroring Gents’

Part 1: A Southern Masculinity.

Apr 3 • 

Jessie McCarty

5

1

4

February 2025

A Self Taxonomy

Informal exploration of contemporary queer uses of taxonomy amidst current US infringements.

Feb 26 • 

Jessie McCarty

5

3

January 2025

Permissions

To exhale, look, teach, critique, outshine, die. RIP William B. Yeats, you would love loved day trips to Milwaukee.

Jan 28 • 

Jessie McCarty

5

1

2

November 2024

All I Have is Poetry

How all poems are poems. Including lines from Jack Collom, Francesca Kritikos, and Michael Martin Shea.

Nov 8, 2024 • 

Jessie McCarty

3

1

September 2024

"It Seems Rather Pointless to Write"

Some Jottings from Sticky Notes.

Sep 4, 2024 • 

Jessie McCarty

3

1

August 2024

Last week on the South Side: an Archivist Introspective

I've always thought of books.

Aug 6, 2024 • 

Jessie McCarty

7

2

July 2024

Series: Sub Series: Box: Folder: Scope and Contents

Writing my way through it

Jul 26, 2024 • 

Jessie McCarty

3

Poetic Classifications, Fruits of Consequence

A knife. My answer to the question: How did you get that line on your forehead?

Jul 22, 2024 • 

Jessie McCarty

3

1