In this multi-week writing workshop, writers will be immersed in a safe space to experiment, fail, and soar one draft at a time. Our central concern will be how do writers use memory, physical objects, and Big Feelings to enhance the energy of a piece. We will read examples of poems and prose that invite readers to reimagine the work as more than a container for confessions or observation. Instead, we will aim for writing that is alive, in conversation with the broader world, and that pushes the boundaries of the page. We will engage material objects, geography, personal and public history, and popular culture as a stage to explore surprising revelations in tight, lyrical, breath-stealing work. This will be equal parts a generative workshop (designed to create new drafts) and we will also workshop your own writing.
About Abdul Ali
Abdul Ali is a poet, teacher, and nonprofit consultant. He is the author of Trouble Sleeping, his debut collection of poems that won the 2014 New Issues Poetry Book Prize and is the current Editor-at-Large of Pleiades. He has published his poems in numerous journals and publications including Copper Nickel, Plume, and Transition. He has taught writing at MICA, Johns Hopkins University, and Howard University. More about him at abdulali.net. Follow him on social media at @abdulalism.
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