Poetry
July 5-9, 2021
Open to All
Tiered Tuition
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About the Offering
Where does a poem come from? How is a poem even made? Some of the world’s best poets sit down and ask themselves this daily. The blank page, the sound of nothing. How does one begin? In this workshop we’ll talk about how to call the poem to you, how to find what has been moving in you all along, how to dislodge personal truths, and how to craft new poems on the page. We’ll read some contemporary poems and use them to inspire in-class writing.
LIVE TIME: 12pm-2pm EST.
About the Instructor/Moderator
Ada Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limón is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a 2024 Time Magazine Woman of the Year. She is the author of two picture books, In Praise of Mystery as well as And, Too, The Fox, and was the editor of the anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. She served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, and her short-form non-fiction book Against Breaking: On The Power of Poetry, was released in 2026.
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