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How can poetry help us celebrate the daily, our ephemeral lives, and a world we know is filled with hurt? Can poetry truly reflect the human experience and take its writer, and its reader, on a journey of wondrous every-day discovery, when the time we spend on earth has such capacity for pain?
In this workshop we will read, discuss, and write poems that insist on wonder, attempting to do what Rainer Maria Rilke describes in the following lines of his The Duino Elegies:
O tell us, poet, what is it you do?
— I praise.
This workshop is being facilitated by internationally acclaimed Lebanese poet, Zeina Hashem Beck, whose latest collection, O, was published by Penguin in 2022 and named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and The New York Public Library.
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