How Food Can Inspire Poetry

A Writing Workshop

Alexandria Poet Laureate Zeina Azzam is pleased to present this poetry workshop sponsored by the Alexandria Office of the Arts and Beatley Central Library. Click on the event title for details.

Food not only nourishes our bodies but it evokes our ideas about culture, tradition, memory, and identity. Food also is an important metaphor in poetry for different kinds of hunger, power, sensuality, interconnectedness, and so much more. This workshop will explore these ideas through discussion and reading of poems that utilize food as an organizing principle, metaphor, and imagery. We will make time to start writing our own poems, so come with some ideas in mind (or be ready to get inspired by the poems we read together and the prompts provided).

Registration required: Attendance is free, but space is limited to the first 15 registrants. To sign up, email your name, home address, email address, and phone number to the Office of the Arts at poet@alexandriava.gov by March 11.

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