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Sunday Workshop: Registration Due (Coleman)
February 13 @ 11:59 pm
In conjunction with our February Observable Readings, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Aaron Coleman for Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop focused on attention and gratitude.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
How We Attune to Gratitude
In this workshop we will explore how poets cultivate an intimate sense of attention: attuning to the complexity of the world(s) around us and the world(s) within us. We’ll dwell together with poems and writing prompts that cultivate our sense of careful attention and we’ll contemplate together what that attention makes possible, especially gratitude, especially communal connection, and maybe even joy.
GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION
Please note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.
- Registration is due by Friday, February 13
- This is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems
- No poem submissions will be accepted for this special event
- Poets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time
- Those registering are expected to attend the workshop
To register, email:
[email protected]
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 13, 2026
ABOUT THE POET
AARON COLEMAN is a poet, translator, educator, and scholar of the African Diaspora. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Cave Canem, the Fulbright Program, and the American Literary Translators Association. His debut poetry collection, Threat Come Close, was the winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and his chapbook, St. Trigger, won the Button Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén’s 1967 collection, The Great Zoo, selected for the Phoenix Poet Series by University of Chicago Press. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Boston Review, Callaloo, and Poetry Magazine. From Metro-Detroit, Coleman has lived and worked with youth in locations including Spain, South Africa, Chicago, St. Louis, and Kalamazoo. He is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.