Thursdays at 7:00PM in June beginning June 5th

Writing the End of the World, a four-week series about apocalypse poetics, drawing on work from Franny Choi, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, and others.

In this four-week workshop, we'll consider apocalypse through different lenses: climate apocalypse, war apocalypse, colonial apocalypse, empire apocalypse. For many groups throughout history, the world has already ended (think Pompeii, as an easy example). With this perspective in mind, how can we use poetry to make sense of the various ways a world can end, and the difficulty we face when it continues to go on? This is a generative workshop that will use prompts and model texts to encourage new writing.

Workshop registration includes a new copy of The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On by Franny Choi.

This 4-week writing workshop will meet weekly at 7:00PM on Thursdays in June.
Workshop Meetings: June 5, June 12, June 19, June 26.

Facilitator Bio

Carrie George, M.F.A (she/her), is a co-editor of Light Enters the Grove: Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park Through Poetry, Kent State University Press. Her chapbook Unbecoming won the 2024 Flume Press chapbook prize. She is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Florida Review, and elsewhere.