Celebrate the power of language for St Brigid’s Day in this poetry writing workshop with poet Grace Wilentz.
Celebrating St Brigid’s Day, this poetry workshop will be led poet by Grace Wilentz and explore the theme of goddesses.
Taking place at Ballyfermot Library, this workshop is part of the programme for the festival St Brigit: Celebrating Women.
Participants will come away from this workshop with new ideas and some fresh creative work.
Grace Wilentz was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village. A graduate of Harvard University, with postgraduate degrees from Oxford University and University College Dublin, she moved to Ireland in 2005 to study the Irish language and became an Irish citizen in 2015.
Her first collection, The Limit of Light, was published by The Gallery Press in October 2020 and went on to be named a book of the year in The Irish Independent and The Irish Times.
She has received support from The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon including a Literature Bursary and a Next Generation Award. Her most recent collection, Harmony (Unfinished), published in October 2024, was a finalist for the Munster Literature Centre’s Farmgate Award. She is the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Notre Dame in Dublin.
Location: Ballyfermot Library, Ballyfermot Rd, Kylemore, Dublin, D10 WV02
This workshop is presented as part of our Hugh Lane Gallery’s Explore & Learn offsite programmes during the Gallery’s period of temporary closure.
No experience required. Advance booking essential.
