The Driftless Writing Center will host an in-person poetry workshop with poet Natasha Oladokun on Saturday, September 23—titled “Abracadabra! The Poem as Prayer and Conjuring”—from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (CT) at the Vernon County Historical Society Museum in Viroqua, Wisconsin.

In her workshop, Oladokun will lead attendees in reading and discussing poets who invite the spiritual and metaphysical into the world of their poems—poets who wield language, story, and lyric as deftly as a wand. She’ll present poems that pray and poems that argue, poems that don’t shy away from naming what they want. And she’ll lead the workshop attendees in writing their own poems together, too. No prior experience is required for this workshop—all that’s needed is a sense of fun, curiosity, and a little bit of faith in the magic of language.

This limited attendance workshop is open to writers of all levels and will be held at the Vernon County Historical Society Museum at 410 S. Center Avenue. The DWC offers sliding scale tuition; scholarships are also available. The registration form for the workshop can be found on the Driftless Writing Center’s website, www.driftlesswritingcenter.org. Or email the DWC for more information at [email protected].