Join Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs as they lead this generative workshop. To truly understand ourselves, we must attend to our origins, to the people and circumstances that shaped our childhoods and laid the foundations for the adults we have become. In this workshop, Jessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown, award-winning poets and co-authors of Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire, will lead you through a series of prompts meant to get you writing, inspired by close-readings of poems by Marie Howe, Li-Young Lee, and Ada Limon.
Don’t miss their reading on Thursday for more inspiration.
Both the reading and the workshop are free, but we ask you to register for either/both in advance:
Reading - September 8, 6-7 p.m.
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Workshop - September 10, 1-2:30 p.m.
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Nickole Brown’s first book of poems, Sister, is in the form of letters written to her younger sister, and her second, Fanny Says, is a biography-in-poems of her tough-as-new-rope Kentucky grandmother and won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry. Currently, she volunteers at several animal sanctuaries and rescues, and her latest work investigates the interdependent and often fraught relationship between human and non-human animals in two chapbooks—To Those Who Were Our First Gods, winner of the Rattle Chapbook Prize, and The Donkey Elegies.
Jessica Jacobs’ first book, Pelvis with Distance, is a biography-in-poems of the painter Georgia O’Keeffe and the story of a month she spent alone in the high desert, and won the New Mexico Book Award for Poetry. Her second, Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going, winner of the Devil's Kitchen and Goldie Awards, is a memoir-in-poems about coming of age in Florida and the complexities and joys of early marriage between the poet and her wife. Her collection of poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis will be out with Four Way Books in 2024.
Nickole and Jessica live in the mountains of Asheville, NC, in a house chock-full of books and lovable, ill-behaved pets. Together, they give readings and lead writing workshops around the country, including online workshops through the SunJune Literary Collaborative.