Kim Addonizio Poetry Craft Workshop & Reading

11:30am-1pm: Craft Workshop: Risking Delight: Kim Addonizio: This craft and generative workshop will be about joy, an emotion that’s difficult to access these days given the state of our country and the world. But as Jack Gilbert wrote, If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction,/we lessen the importance of their deprivation./ We must risk delight. In this workshop, we’ll look at some poems that do just that, and muster some writing of our own to counteract the negative forces around us that insists on pain, destruction, and despair.

Poetry Reading:

2:00pm-3:15pm Kim Addonizio’s most recent poetry collection is Exit Opera (W.W.Norton, 2024). She is the author of eight other poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry, The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius, as well as a memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life. Addonizio’s work has been honored with fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, and her collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Oakland, CA and teaches writing workshops on Zoom. https://www.kimaddonizio.com