FALL 2026 WORKSHOP

Join us for a generative poetry workshop to close out 2026 in community with eldest daughter poets of all levels.

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Workshop Description

What does it mean to be an eldest daughter? What have you carried or inherited? What new possibilities might you reimagine for yourself?

As eldest daughters, there are stories we inherit, live, resist, create, and have yet to tell. In this generative poetry workshop, we'll turn to poetry as a way of exploring the complexities of eldest daughterhood and imagining what else might be possible. Together, we'll make room to feel seen, reflect, and release. This is also an invitation to receive.

Over two sessions, we'll read and discuss contemporary poetry, draft new poems, and engage in reflective writing exercises. Participants will also have the option of sharing their writing aloud in a supportive environment.

Session Details

Dates: Wednesdays, December 9 and December 16, 2026

Times: 6:00–8:00 pm CST (7:00–9:00 pm EST)

Where: Live on Zoom

Who: Eldest daughters of all levels of poetry experience

An email will be sent to all registrants with Zoom information and logistics a few days before the workshop begins.

Pricing and Registration

Early Bird Price: $75 rate only available through Monday, November 23, 2026, at 11:59 pm Central Time

Regular Price: $100 rate through Sunday, December 6, 2026, at 8:00 pm Central Time

Enrollment is limited to 15 participants. Registration officially closes on Sunday, December 6th, at 8:00 pm Central Time.

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Pay the $75 early-bird registration fee in full.

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Payment Plan

Make 2 early-bird payments of $38.75, due 16 days apart.

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Klarna and Affirm are also available at checkout if you prefer to split your workshop fee payment through one of those services instead.

Early Bird Bonus

Register by Monday, November 23rd at 11:59 pm Central Time to receive a bonus of additional poetry prompts and reflective exercises, delivered one week after the workshop ends.

Refund Policy

Due to the nature of this offering and limited space, all sales are final, and no refunds will be offered.

Contact Email: info@bynadiaalexis.com



Previous Workshop Participant Testimonials

“Thank you again for your guidance in the workshop. It filled my soul in a way I didn’t know I needed.”

“The prompts challenged my creative side that had been laying in slumber due to the busyness of life.”

“Thank you again for such an inspiring class and the wonderful and welcoming space you created for us. I really enjoyed how you structured the discussion and engaged with us, both with the gentleness to nudge and let us be.

I especially appreciated the prompts and the choices of photos and poetry to facilitate our discussion, the overall theme, and our creations - plus the resources! SO much gratitude to you and the class."

About the Instructor

Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, photographer, and eldest daughter born in Harlem to Haitian immigrants. She is the debut author of the hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press, 2025), which won the Best Poetry Book Award at the 2026 It’s LIT! Literary Awards, presented by Black Girls Who Write, was a finalist for the 2026 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize, and was longlisted for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award. She was named one of Poets & Writers Magazine's 2026 Ten Best Debut Poets, and she was featured as a BET “Still We Rise” Contemporary Black Poet in 2026.

Her writing and photography have been published widely, and she has received honors including a Literary Arts Fellowship and two Artist Mini-Grants from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a Mississippi STAR Teacher Award, a Vance Fellowship from the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, the Poet of the Year honoree at the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a semifinalist in the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nomination, and an honorable mention poetry prize from the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award.

Nadia's photography has been exhibited in several shows in the U.S., Cuba, and virtually at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). A fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, The Watering Hole, and the Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Publicity Incubator, she holds a PhD and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi.

PAST POETRY WORKSHOPS


Writing the Self, Memory, and Ritual Through Poetry and Photography

In this generative workshop, participants will write new poetry and engage with contemporary poetry and photography that delve into the realms of the self, memory, and ritual. We will enter new doorways and reimagine our understandings of the past, present, and future.

Together, we’ll consider how ritual grounds us, creates sanctuaries, invokes spirit and the sun, makes space for devotion, breaks us into something new, and more.

Some of the poets whose work we'll spend time with: Lucille Clifton, Danez Smith, Monica Ong, Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Some of the photographers whose work we’ll spend time with: Carrie Mae Weems, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Nydia Blas, Allison Janae Hamilton, Eli Farinango.

Write Toward the Light

In this 100-minute generative poetry workshop for poets of color, we will gather in community to read and write poems that reach toward light, imagined worlds, community, tenderness, and love. The kind of poems that remind us of the power of words to transmute.

We will spend time with poems by Danez Smith, allowing ourselves to receive insights and inspiration to write our own. The session will open with a gratitude practice before moving into close reading, craft conversation, and generative writing. Participants will write at least two poems during the session and have the chance to share in the company of community.

During a time when the world feels heavy, this workshop is an offering and an invitation to come as you are.

 
 
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