This workshop with Natasha Rao invites writers of all experience levels to transform your memories into poems. We’ll use work from published poets as loose templates, delving into the rich territory of the past
to generate our own drafts in a supportive setting. Whether you want to capture a moment from childhood, a place you once visited, or a piece of history, this interactive workshop will explore ways to preserve memories in meaningful and unexpected ways.
Natasha Rao is the author of Latitude, which was selected by Ada Limón as the winner of the 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, she has also received fellowships from Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work appears in The Nation, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from NYU, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. She is currently Co-Editor of the literary and arts magazine American Chordata.
