Join 2025-2026 Hackerman Writer in Residence poet Taylor Johnson for the seventh in a monthly poetry-writing workshop series. From October through May, we'll meet for two hours on the third Saturday of every month except December, when we’ll meet on the first Saturday of the month.
 

Registration is required, and all spots are currently filled. To join the waitlist, please email wir@prattlibrary.org, providing your name, phone number, and the dates of the workshops you wish to attend.

These are the dates, times, and locations for all of the workshops:

Saturday, October 18, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Red Emma's
Saturday, November 15, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library
Saturday, December 6, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library
Saturday, January 17, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library
Saturday, February 21, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library
Saturday, March 21, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library
Saturday, April 18, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library
Saturday, May 16, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, Central Library

About the Workshop Facilitator:
Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. He is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and a 2024 Whiting Award. His work appears in Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers from Lambda Literary. Taylor was the inaugural 2022 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. He was the Poet Laureate of Takoma Park, Maryland, from 2022 to 2025.
 

Photo of Taylor Johnson by S*an D. Henry-Smith.

Funding for the Pratt Hackerman Artist & Writer in Residence program has been provided through the generosity of The Hackerman Foundation.