Community

Read beside people who love it too.

A book is better with people to talk it over with. Take any class or come to a free session, and you are part of the community. You can read on your own, and many readers do. When you want company, it is here.

A Reading from Homer, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Ways to take part

Community is there when you want it.

After class

Live questions

Ten minutes of live questions follow every lecture. Ask your own, or listen to what other readers ask.

Between classes

Discussion groups

Post a thought or a question, read what other readers noticed, or simply follow along. I answer in the groups too, so you can take part without ever coming live.

For members

The Reading Group

A live discussion of the week’s reading. Bring a line you loved, a question, or something that confused you, and we talk it through together.

Open to everyone

Thursday Night Live

Live poetry, sometimes with a guest. Always free.

See the next one

Members also help shape what The Art of Reading takes up next.

Come read with us

Come to a free session, take a course, or become a member.

Take any class or come to a free session, and you are part of it. Membership also includes the Reading Group and discussion groups.