Poetry Workshop with Sally Van Doren

Join us for generative workshop with poet Sally Van Doren. We will read a nature poem together and then using prompts, explore ways to express ourselves using nature as a guide. This workshop is focused on generating new works, and we will exchange feedback with our fellow writers.

This workshop is limited to 12, and registration is required. Please register below. We will meet in the Library’s upstairs conference room, so please plan to navigate a short flight of stairs.

An acclaimed poet and practicing artist, Sally Van Doren is the author of four poetry collections, including Sibilance (LSU Press 2023) and Sex at Noon Taxes, winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared widely in national and international publications, such as Poetry Daily, Poetry London, The New Republic, Poetry Ireland Review, Prairie Schooner, NPR, PBS, and The Poetry Foundation. Since 2006, she has added a line a day to her ongoing poem, “The Sense Series” excerpts of which served as the text for a multi-media installation at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

Raised in St. Louis, Van Doren holds degrees from Princeton and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She now divides her time between Cornwall and New York. She leads an ongoing writing workshop at the Scoville Memorial Library in Salisbury and has taught previously at the 92nd Street Y, the St. Louis Public Schools and the Cornwall Library. She works from her studio in West Cornwall.