Thursday July 9, 6-7 pm
This workshop guides writers through the process of approaching difficult, emotionally charged material with care, precision, and craft. Participants will explore strategies for writing “the hard poem” while maintaining agency, shaping raw experience into language that feels both honest and sustainable.
Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and assistant professor of English at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (Nebraska, 2021), winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Julie Suk Award and shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature. His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Guernica Magazine, Poetry London, Best American Experimental Writing Anthology, and Cincinnati Review. He has received fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, Mississippi Arts Commission, and Cave Canem. His new book is the epic poem, Bakandamiya: An Elegy.
Thursday July 9, 6-7 pm
This workshop guides writers through the process of approaching difficult, emotionally charged material with care, precision, and craft. Participants will explore strategies for writing “the hard poem” while maintaining agency, shaping raw experience into language that feels both honest and sustainable.
Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and assistant professor of English at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (Nebraska, 2021), winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Julie Suk Award and shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature. His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Guernica Magazine, Poetry London, Best American Experimental Writing Anthology, and Cincinnati Review. He has received fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, Mississippi Arts Commission, and Cave Canem. His new book is the epic poem, Bakandamiya: An Elegy.
