2025 Summer Workshop Program
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Feelings, questions, and beliefs are the insistent rivers shaping our inner landscapes, capable of both ordering and upending our lives. Yet they can feel ephemeral as mist when we try to communicate them on the page. In our week together, we’ll explore the power and possibility of figurative language—metaphors, similes, allusions, and more—to channel abstractions into evocative poems with the force to carry both writer and reader into new ways of knowing the world—inside and out. For writers of all levels, this workshop will be a blend of close reading (of poems, other people, the natural world, and ourselves), open exchange, guided writing exercises, and discussions of how craft can help us embody and communicate even the most elusive ideas. While there will be opportunities to share drafts and receive feedback, this is primarily a generative workshop.
Biography
Jessica Jacobs is the author of unalone, poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis (Four Way Books, March 2024); Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going, one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books of the Year and winner of the Devil’s Kitchen and Goldie Awards; and Pelvis with Distance, winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Jacobs is the founder and executive director of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry.
