Duke University professor Bruce Lawrence offers an introduction to the poetic style and aural beauty of the Qur’an and discusses the challenge of translating archaic Arabi

This hands-on workshop focuses on in-class writing rather than critiquing peer work. A specific assignment or process is explained, and then students get down to work.

In this workshop, students learn to see every good poem as a toolbox for the creation of a new poem.

Class participants work with forms (sentence, found text, the list), themes (place, history, letter writing) and the making of images that sit near the texts.