It Do Take Nerve: Writing Brave Poems with Nicholas Goodly

About the workshop:

This workshop explores poetry as a practice of self-acceptance and empowerment. We’ll begin by reading and creating poems that embrace dramatic self-affirmation and unapologetic expression of identity. From there, we’ll shift toward writing that pushes beyond comfort zones, encouraging participants to explore radical vulnerability and emotional honesty on the page. Through discussion, prompts, and generative exercises, writers will experiment with finding the courage to reveal the “naked self” in their work while building trust in their own voice and perspective.

About Nicholas Goodly:

Nicholas Goodly, PhD. is the author of Star Power (Scribner Press, 2026) and Black Swim (Copper Canyon, 2022). Nicholas is a team member of the performing arts platform Fly on a Wall and writing editor of WUSSY Magazine. Goodly is a finalist for the 2020 Jake Adam York Prize, the runner-up for the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and recipient of the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Goodly has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, Boston Review, BOMB, The Poetry Project, Lambda Literary, Narrative Magazine,  and elsewhere.

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