In this special Literary Masters Lecture, learn strategies for bringing truth to your work! This event will feature an engaging craft talk, actionable writing strategies, and a live Q&A. Award-winning poet Kathy Fagan will lead a discussion on how weaving the narrative and the lyrical, the personal and the political, the autobiographical and the historical can crystallize truth. Participants will leave with craft tools they can practice on their own after the lecture.
DATES: Monday, October 26, 6:30–8pm CT, In-person at Gemini Ink
COST: Nonmember: $70; Member: $60; Student/Educ/Mil: $49
REGISTER: https://geminiink.org/events/truth-as-a-poets-raw-material-with-kathy-fagan/
Kathy Fagan’s newest collection, The Unbecoming (W.W. Norton, September 2026), is available for preorder now. Her sixth book, winner of Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize, is Bad Hobby (Milkweed Editions, 2022), available in print and audio. Sycamore (Milkweed, 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award. Fagan is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, former NEA recipient, and longtime educator. Fagan is Professor Emerita of The Ohio State University.
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