THE POETS’ STUDIO: Revision Workshop
DETAILS
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 @ 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Twelve Gates Arts
106 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, United States (map)
ABOUT THE REVISION WORKSHOP
Twelve Gates is excited to invite you to our first Revision Workshop for The Poets' Studio. Facilitated by Sanam Sheriff, we will be workshopping three poets with priority given to those who attended April's Writing Workshop. To submit your work for consideration, please fill out the Google form linked below. While we hope you will all attend in the spirit of collaboration and conversation around the work, we will only be workshopping 3 poets, collectively providing our reflections and feedback. Those who attend will also be given priority for next month's Revision Workshop.
Doors open at 6:30 PM and will promptly start at 7:00 PM. The workshop will run until 8:30 PM.
Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIQsQWKYEUyUQJjHbcctaVpE5ZQBmpo_CjMTcQ_8TmUNxxSA/viewform?usp=header
Click here to RSVP to the Writing Workshop on April 29th, 2025 at 6:30pm.
Sanam Sheriff is a queer poet, artist, and educator from Bangalore, India. They have received support from the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Kundiman, Brew & Forge, The Watering Hole, and The Seventh Wave, among others. Sanam’s work has been published in Indiana Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Academy of American Poets, Washington Square Review, Outlook India, and elsewhere. Sanam holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. They currently serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College where they organize the Reading Series. Sanam is working, with much love, on their debut poetry collection.
This Month’s Poet is Taylor Alyson Lewis, who will be giving a reading and leading us through this April’s writing workshop where poets will have the opportunity to generate and share new work.
Taylor Alyson Lewis (he/him) is a poet and educator. He holds a BA in English from Spelman College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Camden. At Rutgers, he taught first-year composition and was a research assistant and project manager at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. He has also been a visiting instructor in creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and a high school English and Social Studies teacher. Taylor has received fellowships to support his writing from Lambda Literary, Fine Arts Work Center, Tin House Summer Workshop, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, where he was awarded the Queer Writer Fellowship in Prose. His work appears in Nat. Brut, Poetry Online, Voicemail Poems, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere.