Part of The Poetry Society of New York's Weekly Virtual Workshop Series.

With poet Sebastian Merrill!

This generative workshop will introduce several techniques for writing when you’re feeling stuck. We’ll cultivate a sense of wonder, intuition, and magic with various tools including bibliomancy, pulling inspiration from the tarot, and homophonic translation. The act of writing is an act of revelation: this workshop will provide you with techniques and skills to act as a medium for your poetry, discovering new ideas, shapes, and forms through your own subconscious.

About the Instructor: Sebastian Merrill’s (he/him) debut collection GHOST :: SEEDS won the 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize (Texas Review Press, 2023). Merrill won the 2022 Levis Prize for Poetry, received the Rodney Jack Scholarship from Friends of Writers, and was a member of the 2023 Get the Word Out inaugural poetry cohort. He was a staff-scholar for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2022 and 2023 and was a summer 2023 Warren Wilson MFA Alumni Residency Fellow. Merrill has also received support from Tin House Workshop and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. He earned an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and a BA from Wellesley College.

* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**