🗓 Date: 4th May 2025
🕐 Time: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
📍 Location: Lakmahal Community Library
🧑🎓 Open to 15 participants aged 18 and above, writing in English.
📩 Interested poets should apply by sending a short bio and two poems to [email protected] before 1st May.
📖 This poetry workshop takes Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas as a sensory and ethical prompt. In the story, utopia is built through texture, colour, light, and joy—and disrupted by a single, unseen room.
📝 Through guided prompts, close reading, and group discussion, we will write from multiple perspectives: those who watch, those who stay, and those who walk away.
🧠 Participants will be invited to hold tension, name what’s difficult, and write into spaces that resist easy resolution. Through poetry, we will explore how language and the body respond to discomfort—how voice, silence, and form carry complexity both on the page and in performance.
📸 Image credit: Portrait of Tashyana Handy; background illustration adapted from the cover of Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Octavo, 1969)
