R|W|I - Meaningful Poetry Workshop with Geffrey Davis

Join us for a generative poetry workshop with Geffrey Davis where he will lead a craft conversation that includes writing prompts for participants to begin during the class.
The prompts will spark discussions about writing about the Near and Dear. He will talk about the risks and rewards of sentiment, especially when writing about loved ones and family members. You will learn how to begin writing and start your own poem from the prompt and discussion.

Geffrey Davis is the author of two full collections of poetry: Night Angler (BOA Editions, 2019) and Revising the Storm ​(BOA Editions, 2014), winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist. He is also the author of the chapbook Begotten (URB Books, 2016), coauthored with F. Douglas Brown. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse​, ​Mississippi Review, New England Review, ​New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. ​A native of the Pacific Northwest, Davis teaches for the University of Arkansas’s MFA in Creative Writing & Translation and for The Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program.