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This workshop will explore how to write poems that speak with the errant strangeness of our innermost beings.

Taking the idea of the ‘Black Interior’ as a space for radical imagining, this workshop will explore how to write poems that speak with the errant strangeness of our innermost beings.

With a focus for the ways that the interior shapes both our selfhood and our relation to others and the terms of the world, we will read poems by Ama Codjoe, June Jordan, and Harmony Holiday amongst others. Participants will be guided to generate new writing and receive feedback within the session.

Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer, and artist whose work has appeared widely in publications including the London Review of Books, LitHub, and The Atlantic. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed debut poetry book, QUIET, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Pollard International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. QUIET is published by Faber in the UK and in North America by Alfred A. Knopf.