Description

Dates: Wednesday(s), June 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2025 6:30-8:30 pm CDT, via Zoom
Cost: Nonmember $200, Member $170, Student/Educ/Mil $140

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.