Writing Down the Moon, with Sarah Browning

“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.


Wednesdays, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. EST; 7-week workshop begins March 18th

You may also like the following events from Writers in Progress:

• This Saturday, 28th February, 09:30 am, The Story Beneath the Story: Research and Backstory for Writers, with Jacqueline Sheehan in Florence
• This Sunday, 1st March, 02:30 pm, March Community Writing Workshop, with Dori Ostermiller in Northampton, Massachusetts
• Next Monday, 2nd March, 04:00 pm, Writing Jumpstarts, with Dori Ostermiller in Florence

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