In a world at the threshold, on the brink, in which it’s easy to feel overwhelmed with information, emotion, and anxiety, how can poetry be a place of opening, of receptivity, and flow between? In this five-week summer poetry workshop with Sarah Rose Nordgren, we will meet the bewildered world with both bravery and softness, equally prepared to accept and to transform.
This workshop includes weekly assigned course readings for inspiration and discussion, writing prompts, and group workshop feedback. The course is best suited to writers who have some previous workshop experience, but is open to poets of all levels. Please inquire by email if you're wondering if the course is a good match for you, or if finances are a barrier.
Course Details:
Mondays, July 15 - Aug 12, 6pm-8:30pm ET, Zoom
Early registration tuition (before June 1): $325
Course tuition (after June 1): $360
About the Instructor:
Sarah Rose Nordgren is an American poet, writer, teacher, and cultural organizer. She is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Best Bones (University of Pittsburgh, 2014) and Darwin’s Mother (University of Pittsburgh, 2017), the creative nonfiction book Feathers: A Bird-Hat Wearer’s Journal, winner of the Essay Press Book Prize (Essay Press, 2024), and the prose chapbook The Creation Museum (Harbor Editions, 2022), which explore feminism, the natural world, spirituality, science, and the human experience. Nordgren’s poems and essays have appeared widely in periodicals for the past two decades, including in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Narrative, and have been featured by PBS Newshour, The Slowdown podcast, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere.
Among her awards are two winter fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, and fellowships and scholarships from the Sewanee and Bread Loaf Conferences, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Nordgren holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA in poetry from University of North Carolina Greensboro, and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from University of Cincinnati where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She has taught courses in poetry, literature, and environmental writing at University of North Carolina Greensboro, Xavier University, Miami University of Ohio, and University of Cincinnati, as well as independently and through various arts institutions.
Sarah Rose lives in Durham, North Carolina, where she teaches poetry, serves as Emerging Poet Feature editor for 32 Poems, and is the Founding Director of The School for Living Futures.