“Dear You, Dear Me”: A Poetry & Creative Nonfiction Workshop on Letters
Letters have been around since wooden tablets, pottery, animal skin, and papyrus. They have played a valuable role in writing as an art form throughout history. The drive to address another whether friend, foe, or lover is a deeply human and ancient one. How does addressing another, or even ourselves, inform our creative process? How does the possibility of a correspondence or exchange influence our writing? How do letters transcend time and place? How is letter writing still relevant in our digital age? From Rilke to Vuong, join us for an exploration of the epistolary form through poetry and creative nonfiction. Because we all have things left unsaid.
- Who: Shoshana Sarah
- When: Friday, September 4, 2026
- Time: 10:00-12:30 (There will be a short break with light refreshments.)
- Where: Arnona, Jerusalem (The exact address will be given after registration.)
- Price: 170₪
Registration link
Facebook event
For any questions:
Shoshana 052.445.4309
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Who am I?
Shoshana Sarah is a multidisciplinary artist based in Jerusalem. Founder of Poets of Babel, a multilingual poetry community, her work explores hybrid identity, notions of home, living in translation, and the power of naming. Her lyric essays and poetry appear in The Ilanot Review, מרחב الفضاء Space, Duende, Mixed Race 3.0, בקול רם! (Bekol Ram, the Poetry Slam Israel anthology), Therefore for Thee: Celebrating Walt Whitman in Israel, Identity Theory, The Spotlong Review, Bending Genres, and more. Her manuscript Not on the Map: A Hybrid Lyric Memoir, was recognized as a Dzanc Books longlist honoree and is forthcoming with Alternating Current Press. Shoshana is a graduate of the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She works as a voiceover artist, live statue, creative writing workshop facilitator, private writing coach, poetry editor, and academic English teacher.
Her performance piece “Kaddish for Daddy,” which interweaves dance, her own poetry, and Allen Ginsberg’s “Kaddish,” recently made its debut at HaKvutza Dance School. She is a certified instructor of The Orly Portal Method and currently studying dance at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in the Movement Focus.
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