Poem Plus Prompt | 90 min
11/25 | Monday, 7:30–9:00 pm ET | Zoom
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This 90-minute session will pair the poem “Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard” by Patrick Rosal with a guided group discussion and a generative writing prompt. Suitable for writers of all experience levels, Poem Plus Prompt will help writers unpack and learn from the key craft elements in Rosal's work.
Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama. Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press), won the Bakeless Prize. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019 (Scribner), Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books), Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin’s) and elsewhere. Ahmed is the recipient of The Florida Review’s Editors’ Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. Ahmed has taught with Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers, Chatham University’s MFA Program, Bryn Mawr College, Hugo House, and elsewhere. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Swarthmore College.
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11/25 | Monday, 7:30–9:00 pm ET | Zoom
Need financial aid? Apply here before adding this item to your cart.
This 90-minute session will pair the poem “Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard” by Patrick Rosal with a guided group discussion and a generative writing prompt. Suitable for writers of all experience levels, Poem Plus Prompt will help writers unpack and learn from the key craft elements in Rosal's work.
Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama. Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press), won the Bakeless Prize. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019 (Scribner), Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books), Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin’s) and elsewhere. Ahmed is the recipient of The Florida Review’s Editors’ Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. Ahmed has taught with Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers, Chatham University’s MFA Program, Bryn Mawr College, Hugo House, and elsewhere. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Swarthmore College.
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11/25 | Monday, 7:30–9:00 pm ET | Zoom
Need financial aid? Apply here before adding this item to your cart.
This 90-minute session will pair the poem “Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard” by Patrick Rosal with a guided group discussion and a generative writing prompt. Suitable for writers of all experience levels, Poem Plus Prompt will help writers unpack and learn from the key craft elements in Rosal's work.
Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama. Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press), won the Bakeless Prize. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019 (Scribner), Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books), Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin’s) and elsewhere. Ahmed is the recipient of The Florida Review’s Editors’ Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. Ahmed has taught with Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers, Chatham University’s MFA Program, Bryn Mawr College, Hugo House, and elsewhere. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Swarthmore College.
