Acclaimed poet Cindy Juyoung Ok will lead participants through a series of prompts to write poems about place, celebrating the Public Library’s NEA Big Read theme, "Where We Live." Bring something to write with, or on. The workshop is open to writers age 18+ and we’ll have complimentary copies of Cindy’s book, "Ward Toward," available while supplies last. 

Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of "Ward Toward" from the Yale Series of Younger Poets, translator of "The Hell of That Star" forthcoming from the Wesleyan Poetry Series, and an assistant professor in the UC Davis MFA. A former high school physics teacher, in 2024 Ok won the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Forward Prize in Poetry from the UK, and the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation.