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In this workshop, participants will address lyrical requirements of poetry, as well as the risk that can make a poem sing. Over eight weeks, we will look at what fears limit our writing, which, if any, are unique to Middle Eastern poets today, and how to move beyond them to reach a fresh music that is our own. You will be pushed to move away from external expectations placed on (Middle Eastern) poets, toward writing according to your own urgent history and desire, writing what you need to write.<br /> <br /> </p> <p>Questions addressed include music of a line, the significance of writing “what you know,” bearing witness, and traditional Middle Eastern forms (ghazal, qasida) written in English. By looking at poems written by Middle Easterners, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Latinas, participants will explore how questions of exile, displacement, migration, and heritage can challenge and enrich one’s poetry.<br /> <br /> </p> <p>Workshop time will be split between sample readings, writing in class, and providing peer critique. In concert, these will help us revise our poems with exactness, and to develop a language to defend and critique our work. This poetry workshop is open to any experience level in hopes of building a diverse community of Middle Eastern poets.</p> <p><br /> <strong><img src="images/arrow.png" alt="" width="9" height="9" border="0" /> Reading materials will be supplied. </strong><br /> <strong><img src="images/arrow.png" alt="" width="9" height="9" border="0" /> Class size is limited to 10, first-come, first-served.</strong> <br /> <strong><img src="images/arrow.png" alt="" width="9" height="9" border="0" /> To register</strong>, <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[  //]]> </script> <br /> </p> <br /> <div class="content-separator-fine"> </div> <br /> <br /> <div class="back-to-top-button"><br /> <a href="#backtotop"><img src="images/glass-arrow-up-30.jpg" title="Back to top of page" alt="Back to top of page" width="30" height="30" border="0" /></a><br /> <a href="#backtotop">Jump to top</a></div> </div> </div>  <div class="searchbar"><form action="http://iranianamericanwriters.org/aiaw-search-results.htm" id="cse-search-box"> <div> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="017997110779524271260:i_p3hiur-pc" /> <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" /> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" /> <input type="text" name="q" size="31" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Go" /> </div> </form> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en"></script> <div class="bold-dotted-green-separator"></div> </div> <div class="sidebar1" id="sidebar1"> <div class="content"> <h3><strong>AIAW WORKSHOP ARCHIVES</strong></h3> <div class="content-separator-fine"></div> <br /> <img src="images/arrow.png" alt="" width="9" height="9" border="0" /><a href="workshops-archive-2008.htm"><strong>AIAW Workshop Archive - 2008</strong></a> <p></p><br /> <div class="bold-dotted-green-separator"></div> <h3><strong>BIO: Solmaz Sharif</strong></h3> <div class="archive-separator"></div> <p><img src="images/member_images/Solmaz-Sharif-170px.jpg" title="Poet Solmaz Sharif" alt="Poet Solmaz Sharif" width="170" height="128" class="imgfloatleft" />Born in exile, <strong><a href="member-profiles-s.htm#p7APMc1_5">Solmaz Sharif</a></strong> completed majors in Sociology and Women of Color Writers at U.C. 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