This Wild Water: A 6-week Poetry Workshop with Teri Ellen Cross Davis

This Wild Water is a six week exploration of poets whose work appears calm on the surface but underneath roils with turbulence as it takes on issues like domesticity, complicated family love, race, and gender. Spanning centuries, we will discuss a range of voices, from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper to Eavan Boland, Evie Shockley, and others. Each week we will become more familiar with the work of a new poet, use that work to generate writing in class or at home, and workshop original poems by the participants.

Participants should have a writing practice prior to joining this workshop.

Artist Bio:

Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union, 2019 winner of The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize  and Haint, winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry.  In 2022 she received Maryland’s State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. In 2020 she received the Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Memorial Prize.  She has been awarded fellowships and scholarships to Cave Canem, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Community of Writers Poetry Workshop,  Hermitage Artist Retreat, and more. Her work has appeared in print, online, and in many journals and anthologies including: Harvard Review, PANK,  Poetry Ireland Review, and Kenyon Review.  She is on the board of directors for Cave Canem and on the boards of Poetry Daily and Lit Youngstown. She is  the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series Curator and Poetry Programs Manager for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C..