LIVE via ZOOM: 8pm-10pm (Eastern Time)

The moon did not become the sun.
It just fell on the desert in great sheets,
reams of silver handmade by you.

—Agha Shahid Ali

In this dynamic, generative workshop, we will join the epistolary poetic tradition by writing letter poems to ourselves, abstract concepts, institutions, other people, each other, and concrete objects.

We’ll look at the poems Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil wrote to each other from their gardens and sent through regular postal mail, The New Yorker epistolary poems between Ada Limón and Natalie Diaz, and poems in Terrain.org’s Letter to America series, as well as poems of address by Lucille Clifton, Kazim Ali, Don Mee Choi, Darius Atefat-Peckham, Emily Dickinson, Rita Dove, Stephen Kuusisto, Federico García Lorca, Jennifer Jean, Lois P. Jones, Victoria Chang, Kelli Russell Agodon, Martha Silano, and Elena Karina Byrne.