A workshop with Hadara Bar-Nadav
December 21, 11 am-1:00 pm ET

Sacred Objects: Finding the Magic Inside 
 
What objects do you hold sacred? A ring, a key, a house, or a text? This generative workshop assumes that objects hold energy and power in our lives. Consider the torah, dressed in velvet and draped in silver, for which an entire congregation stands, this sacred text that a rabbi will only touch with a pointer (yad). Consider the menorah, the candles, and the glorious lights of Chanukah, the radiant inner lives of these objects, what they see, say, and can reveal to us.

This workshop will focus on uses of imagery—all sensory information—to explore sacred objects in our lives and honor their magic and mystery.  Authors studied may include Bert Meyers, Gertrude Stein, Alicia Ostriker, Lucie Brock-Broido, and others. We will spend time together reading, writing, and sharing.

Hadara Bar-Nadav is the recipient of a NEA Fellowship, the Lucille Medwick  Award from the Poetry Society of America, a fellowship from the Poetry  Foundation, and other honors. Her books include The Animal Is Chemical  (Four Way Books, 2024), awarded the Levis Prize in Poetry; The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017); Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013),  awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; and The Frame Called Ruin (New  Issues, 2012), awarded the Margie Book Prize. A reader for Poetry Magazine, she is a Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.