Teaching artists Maureen Alsop and Joshua Davis reunite for this four-week, co-taught, generative workshop in which we will celebrate poems we adore by indispensable poets and offer prompts intended to conjure the chutzpah, the moxie, and the unadulterated courage we need to face the times in which we're living.
Four Thursdays at 5:30 PM ET
Crafted by
Poet & Educator
Joshua Davis is the author of Reversal Spells in Blue and Black and, with Allison Blevins, the co-author of Chorus for the Kill (both from Seven Kitchens Press). He holds an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine, an MFA from the University of Mississippi, and an M.A. from Pittsburg State University. A former John and Renee Grisham fellow, he offers online workshops and private mentoring at The Poetry Barn. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Inflectionist Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The New Southern Fugitives, Tinfish, and Apalachee Review. He is a doctoral candidate in Literature at Ohio University, and he teaches high school English near Tampa, Florida.
Crafted by
Poet, Educator & Psychologist
Maureen Alsop, Ph.D. is the author of Mercury Hour; Arbor Vitae; Tender to Empress; Pyre; Later, Knives & Trees; Mirror Inside Coffin; Mantic; Apparition Wren (also a Spanish Edition, Reyezuelo Aparición, translated by Mario Domínguez Parra); and several chapbooks including Sweetwater Ardour; Nightingale Habit; and the dream and the dream you spoke.
She is the winner of the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award through the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, The Bitter Oleander’s Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award, among others. Her poetry was shortlisted for Montreal International Poetry Prize, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize on numerous occasions.
Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Laurel Review, AGNI, Blackbird, Tampa Review, DIAGRAM, Action Yes, Drunken Boat, Memorious, The Kenyon Review, Typo Magazine and featured on Verse Daily.
Her translations of the poetry of Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay, 1892-1979) are found through Poetry Salzburg Review.
She teaches online with the Academy of Intentional Magic. She is a Book Review Editor and Associate Poetry Editor at Poemeleon. She holds a MFA from Vermont College.