A workshop at the Walt Whitman Birthplace on Saturday will tackle the art of poetry writing by encouraging participants to facilitate emotional healing through creative expression. Participants will be asked to create poetry that reflects evocative and powerful experiences (i.e., challenges, love, death, personal transformation) faced in their lives. Attendees are asked to bring in some memento that encapsulates such an experience (i.e., letter, souvenir, photograph, journal entry, song lyrics) and asked to create a poem or several poems that capture their emotional landscape. Workshop will include mindfulness and breathing exercises, and members will be encouraged to share their work, or reflect on the process of writing.
Hala Alyan is an Arab-American poet who has lived in different regions of the world, spanning from Oklahoma to Beirut. Hala Alyan is pursuing her doctoral degree in the field of clinical psychology and currently resides in Brooklyn. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and her poems have appeared in journals such as Third Coast, Copper Nickel, andThe Journal. Hala's first full-length collection of poetry, entitledAtrium and published by Three Rooms Press in New York City, was recently awarded the 2013 Arab America Book Award in Poetry.
The workshop is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Saturday. ART IMITATES LIFE
Poetry Writing Workshop with Hala Alyan
$20 workshop fee
workshop fee includes admission to evening reading
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