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Writing the Long Poem, with Ann Hudson

A writing workshop for all skill and experience levels

How can a longer poem hold our attention as well as give us room to expand?  In this generative workshop, we’ll read some multi-page poems and see how they work, and then try our hand at writing some ourselves.

As part or our Big Read programming, participants will receive a copy of Ross Gay's book of poetry "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude."

Ann Hudson is the author of three poetry collections: The Armillary Sphere (Ohio University Press, 2006), which was selected by Mary Kinzie as the winner of the Hollis Summer Poetry Prize, Glow (Next Page Press, 2021), and Subtraction Isn’t Always Less (Next Page Press, 2024).
 
Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Crab Orchard Review, North American Review, Orion, Prairie Schooner, and The Seattle Review. She has received residencies from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Midwest Writing Center, and was the finalist for a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry prize.
 
Ann grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has taught elementary, middle, and high school students in Atlanta and Chicago, as well as at the The Young Writers Workshop, a residential writing program for high schoolers. With nearly twenty years’ experience in Montessori education, Ann is currently a trainer for Montessori teachers at MMTTC.
 
Ann is a senior editor for the poetry journal Rhino and a teaching artist for Hive Center for the Book Arts in Evanston, Illinois.

NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read is designed to broaden our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book.

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