In this five-session generative workshop, we’ll delve into spiritually-oriented poems from diverse perspectives in a wide range of styles and modes. In addition to discussing how the poems achieve their impacts on the reader, we’ll explore ways in which they might serve as springboards for our own poems. Participants will have the opportunity to share new work with the group in the final session.
 
We'll focus on Orison Books authors, including previews from forthcoming titles, such as Erik Bendix’s new Rilke translations and work by Stephanie Adams-Santos, Hussain Ahmed, Bruce Beasley, Richard Chess, Haley Hodges, Amit Majmudar, Mary B. Moore, Yehoshua November, Kathryn Knight Sonntag, and others. We’ll also read recent work by Leila Chatti, Jane Hirshfield, Li-Young Lee, Christian Wiman, and more.
 
Luke Hankins is the founder and editor of Orison Books and is the author of several poetry collections, including MAGNITUDE: New & Selected Short Poems (forthcoming, Texas Review Press), as well as 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, Aug. 1–29
12:00–1:30 (ET) | $250