​To complement our Ruby Write-In sessions, we're hosting once-a-month craft talks with Ruby authors!

​This month, please join Ruby Preeti Vangani!

​As poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz writes, "The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved." We will write elegies emerging from personal and communal grief, and discuss the pains and pleasures of "re-membering" the gone. We will do this by reading and discussing modern and contemporary poems, examining poetic strategies and craft elements, followed by guided prompts. Works we read will include poems by Lucille Clifton, Victoria Chang, Mary Jo Bang, and Li-Young Lee, among others.

All participants will leave with drafts that they can continue working on after. There will also be room for sharing and peer feedback. This class is great for all levels of writers who seek to find new ways to write into loss and to rediscover a sense of joy while reimagining our beloveds on the page.

​Join us in the gallery space on the ground floor! 💞

​This is an intimate group of Ruby members.