The Nebraska Poetry Society is offering monthly Saturday morning online poetry workshops. Registration is required, and registration information may be found on the Nebraska Poetry Society webpage. Free with annual membership; nominal fee for non-members. Students, minors and others for whom the registration fee is prohibitive may request a free membership.

Explore the elegy as an ongoing conversation rather than a poem of distance. Through direct address, present tense, and generative prompts, participants will write poems that keep love and loss vividly present on the page.

Allisa Cherry is the author of An Exodus of Sparks (Michigan State University Press) and the 2024 recipient of the Wheelbarrow Books poetry prize (RCAH Center for Poetry). Her poetry has appeared recently in journals such as Chicago Quarterly, Mississippi Review and The Penn Review.

She currently lives in Oregon where she teaches workshops for immigrants and refugees transitioning to a life in the U.S. and serves as a poetry editor for West Trade Review.