Love Poems: A Generative Workshop with Kim Addonizio (via Zoom)

In this generative workshop, we’ll discuss how other poets have tendered their thoughts and sentiments, with an eye to what we can learn from them to inspire our own work about those we love—whether that love is platonic, familial, or romantic. Be ready to write, and maybe draft a poem or three for a special someone in time for Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re drowning in love or searching for it, come and share your memories and observations about this essential human emotion.

Kim Addonizio’s latest poetry collections are Exit Opera (W.W, Norton, 2024) and Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton, 2021). She is the author of seven other poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry, The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux, W.W. Norton, 1997) and Ordinary Genius (W.W. Norton, 2009), as well as a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin Books, 2016). Her…