Join poet & educator Dilruba Ahmed for a session of Poem Plus Prompt (PPP). Each PPP session includes a poem paired with discussion questions that will help us unpack significant craft elements. After our craft discussion, we’ll commit to a round of shared writing time inspired by a related prompt.

Focus poem: “The Blink Reflex” by Rick Barot

Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama. Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press), won the Bakeless Prize. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019 (Scribner), Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books), Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin’s) and elsewhere. Ahmed is the recipient of The Florida Review’s Editors’ Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. She teaches with Chatham University’s MFA Program and Hugo House in Seattle, and joined the faculty at Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers in January 2021.

Web: https://www.dilrubaahmed.com/writing-lab