Now more than ever, poetry allows us to speak of our own experiences on our terms. Unlike prose-based memoir, which is often preoccupied with the facts of an event, or when things take place on a timeline, the poetry of memory can instead focus on the feelings and senses of a memory’s architecture, and the unique ways our memories connect to one another.

In this generative six-week workshop, we will study and discuss techniques used by a variety of poets who have written their own stories and experiences in interesting ways, and work on our own poems the address memory.