Over the five sessions of this discussion-oriented class, we’ll delve into the particulars of how a wide range of spiritual poems from diverse traditions and perspectives achieve their impacts on the reader. We’ll also explore ways in which the poems under consideration might serve as springboards for our own poems. Participants will have opportunities to share their new drafts with the group.
 
We'll discuss poems by Jane Hirshfield, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Warsan Shire, Li-Young Lee, Leila Chatti, Carl Phillips, Christian Wiman, Yehoshua November, Denis Johnson, Franz Wright, Mary B. Moore, Jay Hopler, Ross Gay, and others.

Luke Hankins is the founder and editor of Orison Books and is the author of several poetry collections, a collection of essays, and a volume of translations. He is also the editor or co-editor of a number of anthologies, including Orison Books' Best Spiritual Literature series, Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems, and Poems of Devotion. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, EuropeNow, Image, New England Review, Pleiades, Poetry International, 32 Poems, Verse, World Literature Today, and The Writer's Chronicle, as well as on the American Public Media radio program "On Being".
 
Virtual Sessions | Saturdays, March 1–29
12:00–1:30 (ET) | $250