Despite these hard times, the human impulse to praise and celebrate can provide unexpected ways of moving forward through challenges. In this one-day workshop, we will study how poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, Adam Zagajewski, Frank O’Hara, and others demonstrate how to use praise as a tool for understanding and transcending hard truths. We will explore how to craft our own praise songs. This course is open to writers of all skill levels, 18+.

WORKSHOP DATE: Saturday, November 9, 2024 10:00am - 1:00pm cst online via Zoom

COST: Nonmember: $140 ; Member: $120; Student: $75

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Sheila Black is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Radium Dream from Salmon Poetry, Ireland. Poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Nation, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She co-edits Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. Honors include a 2012 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. She is the assistant director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU).