Writing Our Hearts Out with the Ghazal

This generative poetry workshop will offer examples of the ghazal and guide participants through writing their own poetry. The workshop is facilitated by poets Ryan Jafar Artes and Julia Mallory.
ABOUT THE GHAZAL
From Poetry.Org: “Traditionally invoking melancholy, love, longing, and metaphysical questions, ghazals are often sung by Iranian, Indian, and Pakistani musicians. The form has roots in seventh-century Arabia, and gained prominence in the thirteenth- and fourteenth-centuries thanks to such Persian poets as Rumi and Hafiz. In the eighteenth-century, the ghazal was used by poets writing in Urdu, a mixture of the medieval languages of Northern India, including Persian. Among these poets, Ghalib is the recognized master.
Other languages that adopted the ghazal include Hindi, Pashto, Turkish, and Hebrew. The German poet and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe experimented with the form, as did the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.
Indian musicians such as Ravi Shankar and Begum Akhtar popularized the ghazal in the English-speaking world during the 1960s. However, it was the poet Agha Shahid Ali who introduced it, in its classical form, to Americans.”

Snacks will be served.

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Ages: This event is open to people 13+
Accessibility: There are three steps at each entrance to TEN OH! SIX.
Parking: There is a combination of free and onstreet, metered parking, which ends at 7:00 pm.