This generative workshop will explore family, whether found, nuclear, or extended, through poetry. Using close readings of poems by Robert Hayden, Rita Dove, Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Natasha Trethewey, and more, we will consider how poetry can examine, celebrate and heal. 
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TERI ELLEN CROSS DAVIS is the author of a more perfect Union, awarded the  2019 Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize and Haint, which won the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and a Maryland  State Arts Council award. Her work has appeared in print, online, and in many journals and anthologies including: Harvard Review, PANK,  Poetry Ireland Review, and Kenyon Review. She is the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series Curator and Poetry Programs manager for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C.

HAYES DAVIS’ first volume, Let Our Eyes Linger was published by Poetry Mutual Press. He served as the 2023-24 Howard County (Md) Poetry and Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo) Writer in Residence, and won a 2022 Maryland State Arts Council Regional Independent Artists Award. Widely anthologized and published in many journals, his writing has appeared most recently on the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day feature, and in This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets. He is a member of Cave Canem's first cohort of fellows, a former Bread Loaf working scholar, and has attended or been awarded writing residencies at the Hermitage, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. An education administrator and English teacher, he lives in Silver Spring with his wife, poet Teri Ellen Cross Davis.