Workshop Description

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

Session Details

Dates: Wednesdays, September 23 – October 14 (4 weekly sessions)

Times: 5:30 pm–7:30 pm CST (6:30-8:30 pm EST)

Where: Live on Zoom (sessions will be recorded for attendees)

Who: BIPOC women, femme-identified trans and nonbinary poets

Pricing and Registration

Early Bird Price: $250 rate only available through Tuesday, September 8 at 2:00 PM Central Time

Regular Price: $300 rate through Wednesday, September 16th at 11:59pm CDT

Enrollment is limited to 12 people. Registration closes on Wednesday, September 16.

Regular Price Payment Plans

You may pay the $300 regular rate in full here or choose one of the payment plan options:

2 payments of $153 due 18 days apart

3 payments of $102 due 18 days apart

Klarna and Affirm are also available at checkout if you prefer to split your $300 payment through one of those services instead.

Early Bird Bonus

Register by September 8th at 2pm CDT to receive a bonus packet of prompts and inspiration texts 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 Student Workshop 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, and photographer in Harlem to Haitian immigrants. She is the author of the hybrid debut collection, Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press), which was longlisted for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award, and a 2022 finalist for the Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry, among others. She has also been named one of Poets & Writers Magazine’s 2026 Ten Best Debut Poets for her debut collection.

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 of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a semifinalist in the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nomination, and a 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.