PSNY Virtual Workshop: Mythmaking in Poetry

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet Shlagha Borah!

We all have our personal and traditional myths, no matter where we come from. How do we investigate these myths in our poetry? So many of these myths are dated. In that case, how does one devise a new mythology through their writing? What are some motifs we can borrow from folklore and oral storytelling and incorporate in our present work? We will look at poets such as Sara Mae Henke and Saba Keramati who successfully rewrite myths in their work.

About the Instructor: Shlagha Borah is from Assam, India. Her work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, Quarterly West, Poetry Northwest, and others. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and is a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist. She has taught workshops through Brooklyn Poets, The Peter Bullough Foundation, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. Her work is available at www.shlaghaborah.com.

**This workshop will take place on Zoom.**