Small Harbors:

you will receive

Opening Workshop (90 min):
Gather with Holly to begin the journey, set intentions, and write. On Zoom.

Friday, July 3 at 3-4:30pm Eastern.

Weekly Audio Letters:
A brief reflection tuned to that week's theme, with gentle provocations to carry into your days. These arrive via email.

Closing Ceremony (90 min):
Come back together to write, reflect, and celebrate your words and your way of being a poet in the world. On Zoom.

Friday, July 31 at 3-4:30pm Eastern.

Hand-Assembled, Limited-Edition Small Harbors Retreat Box:
Curated objects and poetry to accompany your writing experience. This gift is meant to be a surprise — and I've loved making and curating the contents as a way of sharing some of the beauty of my world with you. When the box is sold out, the remaining spots in Small Harbors will be offered at a significant discount, and include poetic instructions on how to assemble your own retreat kit.

Still Enrolling:

The Experience & DIY Retreat Kit Option

The Small Harbors journey remains open: you'll receive the weekly audio letters and guided writing exercises, the Opening Workshop, and the Closing Ceremony — all the invitations, poems, and support around living the poem during the month of July (and beyond).

While the limited edition retreat boxes have now been claimed by other early subscribers, you'll receive instructions for how to assemble the elements necessary to make your experience just as rich and layered. Please register early so that you have time to gather your items before we begin on July 3.

The harbors, the letters, the poems, the gatherings — all of it remains available to you. 

Please choose this option if you live outside the United States, are on the move, or want to seize this opportunity to create your retreat, on your own terms.

$325

Small Harbors is a pause, a shimmer of light, an invitation back to yourself, via your pen. This is about slipping away. It's about the Long Thought. About recommitting to beauty. Repairing your spirit through soft attention.

Let the season unfold slowly, luxuriously — with small delights, poems, and experiences under an open sky.

Come moor yourself here. Set out again. Return.

Small Harbors is presented by Holly Wren Spaulding: author, flower worshipper, and maker of ceramic objects. For more than 20 years she has been gathering communities and guiding writers in the art of living the poem—as a way of being in the world and as a considered political stance. Holly writes and gardens on the seacoast of Southern Maine, where she offers retreats, writing workshops, and The Casual Union of Working Poets through her teaching practice, Poetry Forge. Holly's books include Familiars, If August, Between Us, and Fire.