Maya Marshall with Richard Allen Taylor

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In 2018, Maya co-founded underbelly: The Journal on the Practical Magic of Poetic Revision. She has taught at Emory University and Northwestern University. She holds fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, Vermont Studio Center, and elsewhere. Her writing has been widely published. She works as an editor for Haymarket Books, and as an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Adelphi University.

Workshop

Inviting Wonder: Approaching the Familiar from the Opposite Side

In this 90-minute generative workshop we will read and discuss poems that bend our understanding of composition. Then we’ll begin to write our own using a diction and image exercise that may spark for you a new way to see the practice of making poems.

RICHARD ALLEN TAYLOR is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Letters to Karen Carpenter and Other Poems (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2023). His…