Name: Workshop with Chelsea Rathburn: "Finding Our Way Home: Writing the Poetry of Place"
Start: 2025-09-13T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-13T15:00:00-04:00
Location: 4 Archdale St, Charleston, SC 29401-1959, United States

Workshop with Chelsea Rathburn: "Finding Our Way Home: Writing the Poetry of Place"

Finding Our Way Home: Writing the Poetry of Place
Free and open to the public. Bring paper and pencil with you.
A Workshop with Georgia Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn
Home, no matter how we define it – a specific building, a town or region, or even a state of mind – is often the site of our strongest memories and deepest feelings. In this generative workshop, we’ll examine model poems, acknowledging that experiences of home can be tinged with grief as well as pleasure. You’ll receive prompts designed to help you identify powerful personal landscapes and write your way home.

About Workshop Facilitator Chelsea Rathburn
Chelsea Rathburn is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Still Life with Mother and Knife. She is currently at work on a book about home and the foundations – both literal and metaphorical – that shape us. An associate professor of creative writing at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, she has served since 2019 as Georgia Poet Laureate.
To attend remotely: Click on this link to attend via YouTube Live. Once on our YouTube page, you will see the live streaming banner appear once we go live within 15 minutes of the start of the workshop:
https://www.youtube.com/@poetrysocietysc8207/streams