Ghostly and ghastly and gorgeous. In this workshop, we’ll be taking a delve into poetry’s most haunting aspects. We will look at the collision of spirits in a figurative and literal way in poetics. We’ll read essays, have guided discussion, as well as read and write poems. We’ll read works by Solmaz Sharif, Dorothea Lasky, Abigail Deutsch, Kaveh Akbar, Kamran Javadizadeh, among others.
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Crista Siglin (she/they) moved to Berlin in 2017 after having grown up in the Midwestern United States. She studied Painting and Creative Writing at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work oscillates between multiple visual forms as well as poetry, often exploring the body and the mind’s relationship to environment, trauma, time, and phantasmagoria. Her written and visual works have been published in a variety of places; Bridge, Domicilium, Kawsmouth, Bear Review, FU Review, WWBL, PARATAXE, Poetry Foundation’s essay archive, and was featured at Haus für Poesie’s 2024 Poesiefestival. She has released two collections of poetry. Siglin was poetry editor for SAND Journal Berlin from 2018 to 2023. Crista currently runs Poetry As__A Workshop, and is an organizer for the experimental event series AKIMBO.