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Writing Workshop—Poems from the Garden with Julia Lisella
Saturday, April 20, 2024
10:00 AM EDT
Many a garden has served as a location or inspiration for wonderful poems and the Athenaeum garden is no exception! The garden takes many forms : flower garden, vegetable garden, tiny patch on the side of a building, wild place, cultivated place, place of restoration, place of chaos. We’ll read some great examples of garden poems by a variety of poets, including Sylvia Plath, Ruth Stone, and others, and then if weather allows, we’ll take a walk to the nearby gardens with some of these models in mind to do some “en plein air” writing. I will provide prompts as needed. We’ll return to our workshop location to share our work and our plans for fully “harvesting” our poems.
Julia Lisella is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Our Lively Kingdom (Bordighera Press, 2022), Always (WordTech Editions, 2014) and Terrain (WordTech Editions, 2007) and the chapbook, Love Song Hiroshima (Finishing Line Press, 2004). Her poems appear in numerous anthologies, including most recently Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry of Protest (South Jersey Culture and History Center, Stockton University), To Learn the Future: Poems for Teachers (Scottish Poetry Library), and Sharing the Earth: An International Environment Justice Anthology (University of Georgia Press). Her work appears in Ploughshares, Paterson Literary Review, Italian Americana, Ovunque Siamo, Pangyrus, Mom Egg Review, Antiphon, Ocean State Review, Literary Mama, Prairie Schooner, Valparaiso, and many others. She has received a number of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to lead community poetry workshops.
She is also a scholar and critic, specializing in women’s writing, Italian American literature, American poetry, and modernism. She is the co-editor of Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement (Lexington Books) and has published essays on Genevieve Taggard, Muriel Rukeyser, Rosa Zagnoni Marioni, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Margaret Walker. She is Professor of English at Regis College in Massachusetts. Born and raised in Queens, New York, she makes her home in Massachusetts and co-curates the Italian American Writers in Boston Literary Series at I Am Books in Boston’s North End. She has a Ph.D. in English from Tufts.
Tuition: Members $40; Non-members $55; Students; $20 (only 2 students seats available)
Writing Workshop—Poems from the Garden with Julia Lisella
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Salem Athenaeum
337 Essex St. Salem, MA
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Writing Workshop—Poems from the Garden with Julia Lisella
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Salem Athenaeum
337 Essex St. Salem, MA