How do poems serve as containers for grief while expanding our capacity for hope? How do certain poems carry us across a turbulent patch like a lantern in our hand? In this workshop, we'll closely read and discuss such a poem (or two) together before we turn to generating our own creative work inspired by what such reading illuminates. Above all, how can we find or strengthen our creative resilience in the face of so much uncertainty? How can we hold together the light and the dark? 

Sara R. Burnett is the author of Seed Celestial (2022), winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. She has been published in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, PANK, RHINO and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland, and a MA in English Literature from the University of Vermont, and is the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. In addition to writing poetry and essays, she also writes picture books. She lives in Maryland with her family.

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