PSNY Virtual Workshop: The Redux Poem

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet Kailah Figueroa!

Where the persona poem is a form that offers distance between the poet and subject by stitching a veil for the poet to speak through, The Redux Poem imagines the page as a séance to reach a person or return to the past. In this 75-minute workshop, we will incant and coalesce with a past version of ourselves. What archetypes have we been? What roles have we played? What were the narratives we told ourselves were true? We'll summon the work of Lucille Clifton, Jack Gilbert, Marie Howe, Airea D. Matthews, Natalie Shapero, Taylor Johnson, TC Tolbert, and Hana Wilderman. Let’s slip into our old clothes and gloves, revive the faces we’ve worn, and unearth our personal mythologies.

About the Instructor: Kailah Figueroa is a rhetorical engineer, memory archivist, and part-time prose stylist. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, Torch Literary Arts, Pigeon Pages, wildness, Lampblack Magazine, The McNeese Review, and Ploughshares. She received her BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University and holds an MFA in Poetry from Rutgers University-Newark, where she taught Creative Writing to undergraduate students. A Best New Poets and Pushcart Prize nominee, she was selected as a finalist for the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics 2025 Book Prize and has received support and fellowships from the US-UK Fulbright Commission, Vermont Studio Center, Fine Arts Work Center, The Cave Canem Foundation, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. You can learn more about her and work at Kailahfigueroa.com

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