PSNY Virtual Workshop: Archival Poetics

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet Hazem Fahmy!

We know the realm of history to be anything but neutral, but what can poetry bring to the supposedly factual and settled? How can historical material, including the seemingly mundane and bureaucratic, influence poetic craft and vision? We'll navigate these questions together using the work of poets like Solmaz Sharif, Claire Schwartz, Layli Long-Soldier, and Jan-Henry Gray.

About the Instructor: Hazem Fahmy is an Egyptian writer and critic based in Brooklyn. A PhD candidate in Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University, he is the author of three chapbooks: Red//Jild//Prayer (2017) from Diode Editions, Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo (2022) from Half-Mystic Press, and At the Gates (2023) from Akashik Books’ New-Generation African Poets series. A Kundiman and Watering Hole Fellow, his writing has appeared, or is forthcoming in TThe Boston Review, Prairie Schooner, Mubi Notebook, Reverse Shot, and Mizna.

**This workshop will take place on Zoom.**