In this generative poetry workshop, we’ll explore the ghosts we carry—memories, questions, griefs, dreams, and echoes of self that resist silence. To write what haunts us is to make contact with the invisible, to name what lingers, to transform fear or sorrow into something alive on the page. Through writing exercises, close readings, and open discussion, we’ll learn how to invite the haunting in—not to be overtaken by it, but to listen, respond, and reshape it into art.
We’ll look to poets who have skillfully conjured the haunted and the haunting like Natalie Diaz, Diane Seuss, and Ocean Vuong. Participants will leave with several drafts, ideas for longer projects, and a renewed sense of how to write bravely into what follows us—even when we’re trying to move on. No prior workshop experience necessary. All who have been haunted are welcome.