1 Session: Wednesday, March 24
6:00-9:00pm ET
moriel rothman

moriel rothman (they/them) is the award-winning author of the novels Sadness Is a White Bird and Before All the World and the forthcoming poetry collection, I Still Won't Have Known. moriel teaches creative writing at Swarthmore College, and is the recipient of a '5 Under 35' honor from the National Book Foundation and fellowships from MacDowell. Their work has been published in The New York Times, the American Poetry Review, the Paris Review, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere.

In this craft seminar, led by novelist and poet moriel rothman, we will focus on both reading and writing poetry and fiction that deal with themes of grief and surrender. We will begin with a grounding check-in, and a discussion of what roles reading and writing poetry and fiction, in particular, can play in grieving, and what roles grief can play in our art-making. In other words, we will examine the two-directional street of transforming “my pain” into a part of “the pain,” and “my suffering” into a part of “the suffering.”

Together, we will read a number of short texts together, including work by Naomi Shihab Nye, Jalaluddin Rumi, Mark Nepo, John O'Donohue, Edward Hirsch, and Kathleen Collins, and we will then do a number of generative writing exercises, focused around the themes of grief and surrender.

Highlights:

• Spacious encounter with external works on the themes of this class

• Creation of new works of fiction and poetry

• Connections to other writers (a sense of not-aloneness)

This class has 3 scholarships available. To apply, please fill out this form by Monday, March 15.