Beyond Academia Free Skool (BAFS) offers 100% FREE Peer-to-Peer Poetry Education for the People! We invite you to join us for our monthly Second Sunday Poetry Class at Boulder Public Library.
BAFS SECOND SUNDAY POETRY CLASS - September 14th, 2025
[Featured Teachers:] Eric Ranaan Fischman and Lee Frankel-Goldwater
What happens when human voices and machine codes collide?
Join the authors of Lily in a Codebox and Beyond Academia Free Skool for a 2.5-hour workshop that bends the boundaries of poetry. Through binary translations, cyborg co-writing, and visual verse experiments, we’ll test the limits of the “Dickinson-Turing Test.” Can AI (or any poet) move us to feel poetry in the body? No tech skills required. Bring curiosity, skepticism, and a playful spirit as we co-create new forms of poetic expression together.
This will also be an opportunity to purchase this just-released book of code poems, visual art, and reflective essays straight from the authors!
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[Where:] Arapahoe Room of the Boulder Public Library (Main Branch). This room is upstairs by the main stairwell!
[When:] 2:00-4:45. (community building between 2:00-2:15, then class officially gets started!)
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[Tuition:]
BAFS events are always 100% free to attend!
Tax deductible donations can be made through our fiscal sponsor, Boulder County Arts Alliance! All donations go towards paying Poets to teach and perform in our free to the public programs.
[Link to donate:]
https://www.bouldercountyarts.org/con.../beyond-academia-llc
You can also donate through our venmo @beyond-academia
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JUSTICE, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, ACCESS AND INCLUSION
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Beyond Academia LLC Commitment to Justice, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion:
#Justice: Our mission to offer free to the public arts education is rooted in justice. The higher education system in the United States is deeply flawed, limiting the potential for diverse human capital in the arts, due to access barriers created by the high cost of tuition. Poetry is a tool which everyone deserves access to cultivating in their own voice. We strive to dismantle socioeconomic barriers to high quality arts education. In action, this looks like -
-- Advocating for free education.
-- Seeking needed funding to hire teachers for free to the public classes.
#Diversity: Poetry is the vehicle, through which we continuously arrive at a deeper awareness of the diversity of culture present within the intersectional identity of ourselves, others, and the group experience. In action this looks like -
-- Class participants representing a spectrum of lived experience and abilities.
#Equity: As we deepen our awareness and understanding of diversity, we must continually reflect on if our program practices are equitable, and adapt systems in place to ensure everyone receives what they need to participate in Beyond Academia programming. In action this looks like -
--Creating free educational spaces where anyone can be a student, regardless of socioeconomic status.
#Access: BAFS Programs will always be 100% free and open to the public. In action his looks like-
--Street Theatre Style poetry readings (free performances in public spaces)
-- Free to the public classes offered at the Boulder Public Library.
#Inclusion: We recognize that every student has a different story, and enters the classroom from a different starting point; we welcome all people, no one turned away. In action this looks like -
-- Socratic style classes that intentionally embed opportunities for civic dialogue
--an open door policy, come when you can and leave when you need to.
Also check out other Arts events in Boulder, Literary Art events in Boulder, Workshops in Boulder.
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