Writing Poems of Comfort and Affliction with Eve Grubin (Zoom)

Lucille Clifton often said, “Poetry Comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.” In this generative workshop we will read and write poems that both soothe and challenge. The poems we read and write will touch on sadness, delve into loss, and consider the various forms of grief as well as reflect on moments of joy and pleasure. We'll read and write poems in response to poems by Gerald Stern, Langston Hughes, Marie Howe, and Emily Dickinson. We will study and learn from the inner architecture of these poems and after analyzing their craft elements we will write our own. 

BIO

Eve Grubin is the author of Boat of Letters (Four Way Books), Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press), The House of Our First Loving (Rack Press) and Grief Dialogue (Rack Press). She holds a PhD on the poetics of reticence from Kingston University London.