Sex can just be sex. And while it doesn’t have to be a spiritual experience, there’s no denying that for many poets, there are transcendent moments when sex and the sacred touch each other. Sometimes that touch is gentle, and intimate. Sometimes that touch is overwhelming, or even grotesque in its unexpectedness. But either way, it’s undeniable in its potency. So what is it about sex that allows it to be—if one so chooses—an ecstatic experience, fully embodied and beyond the physical body all at once? How can one even manage to articulate it on the page, or in song? It’s a mystery older than poetry itself, and in this workshop the poets we’ll be reading from reckon with eros and the sacred in a surprising variety of ways. This 1-session workshop will include a brief artist talk, followed by group conversation of selected poems, and writing time.
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About Natasha Oladokun
Natasha Oladokun is a Black, queer poet and essayist from Virginia. She holds fellowships from Cave Canem, The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Jackson Center for Creative Writing, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the inaugural First Wave Poetry fellow. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Academy of American Poets, Kenyon Review Online, Harper’s Bazaar, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Madison, WI, and is working on her first collection of poems.
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