Delving into the Levant: Inspiration from International Poets with Veronica Golos
June 4 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm CDT
$200Wednesday(s), June 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2025 from 6:30-8:30 pm CDT via Zoom.
Nonmember: $200; Member: $170; Student: $140
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TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
In a time of worldwide strife and disconnection, poetry reacquaints us with humanity in a way that transcends borders, time zones, and languages. Join master poetry teacher Veronica Golos on an international poetry tour. Next stop: the Middle East!
In this four-week generative poetry workshop we will read, discuss deeply and draw our inspiration from foundational poets Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine), Etel Adnan (Lebanon), Saadi Youssef (Iraq), and contemporary Iranian-American poet Solmaz Sharif. We will explore each poet’s craft tools and apply these techniques to our work. Participants will receive a packet with poems and suggestions for developing their writing.
This class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+.
By the end of the class, students will have the following:
- Study and analyze the work of 4 Middle Eastern poets
- Write poems that follow the selected poet’s structure and theme
- Receive on-the-spot feedback for written work
Veronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL, awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize in 2019; Rootwork, winner of the 2016 Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry; Vocabulary of Silence, a 2011 New Mexico Book Award winner that was translated into Arabic, Spanish and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep, a Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize winner. She teaches poetry for Hugo House, Gemini Ink, and SOMOS. She reviews poetry books for Tupelo Press and works as a manuscript editor. She lives in Taos, New Mexico, with her husband, David Pérez.
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