12/10: Finding Home: Poetry Workshop featuring Ellen Stone & Ashwini Bhasi

12/10: Finding Home Poetry Workshop Featuring Ashwini Bhasi and Ellen Stone

Come join us for a cozy evening of poetry at Booksweet! We are thrilled to have Ashwini Bhasi and Ellen Stone offering their considerable expertise in writing poetry, particularly using nature as a guide for writing or belonging. We will provide space for participants to use the evening as a break from the hectic holiday season - a nature writing break without going outside!

Ashwini Bhasi is a bioinformatician and multidisciplinary artist from Kerala, India. Her hybrid work merges scientific data, poetry and visual art to explore the lived experience of chronic illness, trauma and disability. A Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar, Ashwini is the recipient of the Shaw Memorial Poetry Prize from Dunes Review, a Good Hart Artist Residency and a Room Project Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, DIAGRAM, Redivider and elsewhere. MUSTH, the winner of the 2020 CutBank chapbook contest, is her first poetry collection.

Ellen Stone advises a poetry club at Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, co-hosts a monthly poetry series, Skazat! and is an editor at the literary journal, Public School Poetry. Her poems have appeared recently in Third Coast, Dunes Review, Michigan Quarterly Review Mixtape, and Midwest Review. Ellen is the author of Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them (Mayapple Press, 2025), What Is in the Blood (Mayapple Press, 2020) and The Solid Living World (Michigan Writers’ Cooperative Press, 2013). She was a Good Hart Artist Residency Writer in Residence in 2024. Ellen’s poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.