Ars Poetica turns typewriter poets & artists into creative agents

learn business development, strategic communication, sales, and Account management with the guidance of radical, heart-centered artists like you, with other likeminded and ambitious creative entrepreneurs

We are making typewriter poetry, creative entertainment, performance art, and writing into sustainable professions for empathically intelligent artists who dream of not just “getting by” as a starving artist, but becoming materially secure, creatively thriving, and then using their success to contribute to the creation of a more just, beautiful, bountiful world.

Our first step is to share with you the tools we use to survive a world that often feels it wasn’t built for us (for some of us, in many more ways than others)

Ars Poetica’s founder, Lisa Ann (LAMARKS) Markuson has distilled everything she has learned after eleven years living as a full-time artist. After successfully completing our first ten person cohort in Fall 2023, we are now launching our second ten-person cohort on January 22nd, 2024.

We start on January 22, 2024.

Three months of weekly meetings, workshops, trainings, and real life experience using the philosophies, methodologies, tactics and tools we’ve used to become the top creative entertainment agency of our kind, worldwide. We’ll meet for one hour each week as a whole group, one hour each week in small groups, and 30 mins each week for 1:1 guidance and support. The rest of your learning and practice is on your own time, as you have capacity.

This program is remote, flexible, and can apply to any freelance creative business concept, but is proven at the intersection of writing, performance art, entertainment, and events.

One of the keys to your success in this program is your interest in holding yourself accountable for your growth. We are trauma-informed, radically accessible and inclusive, and are a safe space for women, LGBTQ+, and marginalized identities. We know there are challenges that hold us all back from our great potential, and we must rise to meet those challenges if we are going to grow. It takes effort, and effort is magnified in solidarity, which is why your cohort, the first cohort, the Ars Poetica HQ team, and LAMARKS herself will be by your side the whole way.

We are honored to offer you this capacity building opportunity and hope it helps you make a greater impact, brings you creative freedom, and fills you with spiritual satisfaction.

NOTE: We are not be charging artists for this program. Yes you read that right there is no fee to join our January Creative Agents Cohort. However you will have to sign an NDA to not share this valuable information without our consent or use it in a competitive manner (aka selling on-demand typewriter performance poetry or storytelling) as it is the distillation of 12+ years of our founder’s intellectual property and learnings. If you have any questions about this element of the program, please don’t hesitate to reach out.