“Poetry is not a luxury,” Audre Lorde famously wrote 40 years ago. “It is a vital necessity of our existence.” For many of us, times have always been perilous; and even more so now. Poetry gives voice to our experience and creates meaning from the chaos around us. But how do we combat despair, voicelessness, or anxiety and break through to our wild imaginations? In this workshop, we’ll read poems of rage, redemption, sustenance, and open-heartedness, all by contemporary, diverse poets, and we'll write our own, in conversation and response. Toward the end of the eight weeks, we’ll discuss revision and bring our drafts to the group for response, helping us deepen our engagement with craft and birth into the world our strongest, most vivid and engaging poems. The workshop is designed for everyone, including, but not exclusive to, writer-activists, writers exploring interior struggles, or writers exploring poetry for the first time.
This workshop will be held online. It will not meet the week of November 26th.
Wednesdays, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. EST; 8-week workshop begins October 15th
“Poetry is not a luxury,” Audre Lorde famously wrote 40 years ago. “It is a vital necessity of our existence.” For many of us, times have always been perilous; and even more so now. Poetry gives voice to our experience and creates meaning from the chaos around us. But how do we combat despair, voicelessness, or anxiety and break through to our wild imaginations? In this workshop, we’ll read poems of rage, redemption, sustenance, and open-heartedness, all by contemporary, diverse poets, and we'll write our own, in conversation and response. Toward the end of the eight weeks, we’ll discuss revision and bring our drafts to the group for response, helping us deepen our engagement with craft and birth into the world our strongest, most vivid and engaging poems. The workshop is designed for everyone, including, but not exclusive to, writer-activists, writers exploring interior struggles, or writers exploring poetry for the first time.
This workshop will be held online. It will not meet the week of November 26th.
Wednesdays, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. EST; 8-week workshop begins October 15th
