Introducing . . .
Online Workshops with Friends of Southeast Review
POETRY
Writing Poetry at the End of the World (and other hard times): A Generative Workshop
Length: 6 weeks
WEDNESDAY, 6:30-8:30 pm EST | June 25th – July 30th
Price: $200 (early bird registration until...)
$225 (late registration)
How can we go on writing poetry when the sky is on fire and the future keeps shrinking? How can we not? In this generative workshop, writers will consider end-times poems both contemporary and ancient in an effort to find their own voice for catastrophic times. Students will let this work inspire new approaches to their own writing in order to generate new poems and ideas for moving forward in this tradition.
DR. TONEE MAE MOLL is a queer & trans writer & educator in Baltimore. Her debut memoir, Out of Step, won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award and the 2017 Non/Fiction Prize. The following year, that book was featured on the American Library Association’s annual list of notable LGBTQ+ books. Her latest poetry collection, You Cannot Save Here, won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. Tonee Mae’s poetry has also received the Adele V. Holden award for creative excellence and the Bill Knott Poetry Prize. She has been a finalist for the Baker Awards, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of Net. Most recently, Mae and her work are profiled in Super Gay Poems, from Harvard University Press, where poetry scholar Stephanie Burt has hand-selected 51 poems from queer and trans writers since Stonewall.
Mae holds a PhD in English from Morgan State University and an MFA in creative writing & publishing art from University of Baltimore. Her scholarly work explores feminist pedagogies & epistemologies, poetry, and punk. She is, most notably, a Gemini.
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It is not possible to switch into a different workshop after registering for one. Workshop registrations are nonrefundable.
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