Real and Imaginary Places: A Writing Workshop for Teens with Nan Cohen

How do places — homes, schools, houses of worship, locations in nature, cities, countries, continents — shape who we are and what we care about? This writing workshop is an opportunity to explore the role of places in our ways of seeing the world. Writing a poem or short piece of prose, we will also discover how rooting our writing in a place can help our work grow toward unexpected discoveries.

Class meets in person Saturday, August 10, noon – 2 pm.

Class size: Minimum 5, maximum 12.

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Teaching Artist:  Nan Cohen’s books are Rope Bridge; Unfinished City, winner of the Michael Dryden Award from Gunpowder Press; and a chapbook, Thousand-Year-Old Words (Glass Lyre Press, 2021). Her poems and prose have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Electric Literature, Journal of the American Medical Association, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, Tikkun, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is chair of English at Viewpoint School and co-directs the poetry programs of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. She lives in Los Angeles.