Over the five sessions of this discussion-oriented class, we’ll delve into the particulars of how a wide range of spiritual poems from diverse traditions and perspectives achieve their impacts on the reader. Luke will offer a generative writing prompt based on each poem, and participants will share one or two new poems with the group in the final session.
 
We'll discuss poems by Jane Hirshfield, Gregory Orr, Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Charles Wright, Kwame Dawes, Eduardo C. Corral, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Franz Wright, Ocean Vuong, Tarfia Faizullah, Christian Wiman, David Ebenbach, Philippe Jaccottet, and others.

Luke Hankins is the founder and editor of Orison Books and is the author of several poetry collections, including MAGNITUDE: New & Selected Short Poems (forthcoming, Texas Review Press), as well as a collection of essays and a volume of translations. He is also the editor or co-editor of a number of anthologies, including Orison Books' Best Spiritual Literature series, Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems, and Poems of Devotion. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, EuropeNow, Image, New England Review, Pleiades, Poetry International, 32 Poems, Verse, World Literature Today, and The Writer's Chronicle, as well as on the American Public Media radio program "On Being".
 
Virtual Sessions | Saturdays, May 31–June 28
12:00–1:30 (ET) | $250