Registration for April ISL is
🌸OPEN!🌸

Hello friend,
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​April ISL registration is officially open! This season, we have an amazing group of Visiting Artists: Alison C. Rollins, Paige Lewis, and R.A. Villanueva.
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If that line-up doesn't get us excited for National Poetry Month - we don't know what will!

Scratch that - we know of at least one other thing that's getting us excited for April:

We're welcoming graphic designer, illustrator, and photographer Evgeniy (Zhenya) Rein for a second-ever special event pass & ekphrasis workshop: Coffee Cups and Laundry: The Ethereal in the Mundane​

Read Shira's description of the workshop below:
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​"As poets, we seek to evoke a sense of poignancy. With Rein's work as our portal, we'll explore the emotional grandeur of being human through the mundane. In Rein's photographs, dead yellow blooms curl against a blue that could be either sky or wallpaper; bubbles blown out of frame amorphously decorate a candid tourist scene; punctured glass distorts into a cunning spiderweb.

Among the swapping blur and vividness of daily life, his subjects are caught off-kilter and mid-motion. Bodies rise from benches, turning their backs to us to gaze – at what, at whom? Children run and climb, shadows paint buildings, and a warm light-drenched nostalgia romantically coats every frame.

Rein is a master of conjuring intimacy without force, and a sense of the epic without pretension. He shows us how, in coffee cups and laundry lines, our fleeting and extraordinary lives unfold."

This is an event pass workshop, meaning the public will be welcome to register even if they've not signed up for the full ISL experience this session. Of course, April ISLiens will be automatically enrolled.

✨✨ All in all, our April session will be an immersive, inspiring, and delicious way to celebrate all things poetry for National Poetry Month!

Will you join us?

➡️Register for April ISL here⬅️

Psst. You've only got until March 15th to register!