How to Sing in the Dark with Abby E. Murray
Sat, Sep 13
|Zoom
In this generative workshop, we’ll turn to poetry as a lifeline—reading powerful work born of upheaval, then writing our own. Come to discover how language can hold grief, spark resilience, and light the way forward. Leave with new drafts and a renewed sense of creative purpose.
Time & Location
Sep 13, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Zoom
About the Event
Participants in this workshop will consider several poems born in times of struggle to carry clarity and the doggedness of hope. We’ll explore the poetry of political upheaval and war, as well as familial and personal grief; in doing so, we’ll rediscover the techniques good listeners and writers have used for centuries to create poems that help us persevere.
Prompts generated by the work at hand will get us writing, and poets will leave with drafts to carry onward through the dark.
ABBY E. MURRAY (they/them) is the editor of Collateral, a literary journal concerned with the impact of violent conflict and military service beyond the combat zone. Their first book, Hail and Farewell, won the Perugia Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award; their second book, Recovery Commands, recently won the Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Prize and will be…
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How to Sing in the Dark
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