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Writing Odes: Elevating the Everyday

Genres: Poetry

Online

Open to all levels

1 Session

Start Date: July 25, 2023
End Date: July 25, 2023
Day of Week: Tuesday
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm PT
Capacity: 15 seats
Member Price: $81.00
General Price: $90.00

Unpack how form and content come together to celebrate both the elevated and the mundane in a curated packet of poetry. How might the ode illuminate and celebrate seemingly ordinary aspects of life in ways that reveal new understandings? Together, we'll identify the key craft strategies at play in several contemporary odes, including work by Safia Elhillo, Ellen Bass, and Kevin Young. This class will include quiet writing time with poetry prompts inspired by key examples.

Registration dates:

June 5: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)

June 6: Member registration opens

June 13: General registration opens

Dilruba Ahmed

Dilruba Ahmed

she/her

Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry Series, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press), won the Bakeless Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. 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), Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas), 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.

Website: www.dilrubaahmed.com

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