Thursdays on the Stoop: Poem Plus Prompt: A Study of Noel Quiñones' Poetry

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Thursdays on the Stoop is a series of free, virtual skill shares led for and by writers in our community. With topics ranging from generative prompts to editing strategies, these informal sessions are sure to shake up your Thursday routine. RSVP below to get the link. Dive into the work of Noel Quiñones and come prepared to write in this free, hourlong skill share with author Dilruba Ahmed! Participants will read and discuss poetry from the book "ORANGE," and engage in a brief writing exercise inspired by Quiñones' work. This session will equip attendees to read and analyze poetry as inspiration for their own writing practice. All genres and levels of experience are welcome. Please familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct for online events. RSVP Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound. Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press), won the Bakeless Prize. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019 (Scribner), Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books), Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin’s) and elsewhere. Ahmed is the recipient of The Florida Review’s Editors’ Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. Ahmed has taught with Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers, Chatham University’s MFA Program, Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, Hugo House, and elsewhere. Classes & consultations: www.dilrubaahmed.com Posted In: Free events

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• ORANGE

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Blue Stoop

1300 W Girard Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19123

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