Asynchronous Workshop: “Where to Even Begin?: Writing with Anaphora” with Marcela Sulak
Our stories and epiphanies are born of crises great and small–moments of decision making, turning points, separation. In this generative workshop we will focus on the most famous framing technique in the Bible–anaphora–to help us see patterns, purpose, contrasts, and continuity in crisis. We will consider the uses of anaphora in Ecclesiastes/Kohelet, and in the poetry of Nazim Hikmet and Adrienne Rich, Wisława Szymborska, and others, to reach a deep sense belonging, purpose, history, and community when times are most challenging.
Workshop Costs
Purchase the asynchronous workshop here to receive:
- One recorded class
- Link to poems discussed in class
$24—standard registration
$20—discounted registration for Yetzirah Members (you can become a member here)
*As we want our offerings to be accessible to all, there is a pay-what-you-can option if this pricing is a hardship. Please contact Kyra Lisse at klisse@yetzirahpoets.org for a sliding scale option.
About Marcela
Marcela Sulak’s most recent of five poetry collections include The Fault (2024) and the 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist, City of Skypapers. Her most recent translations from the Hebrew include the forthcoming Music of the Wide Lane and Other Poems by Sharron Hass, for which she won a 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship (University of Texas Press, 2026); I and Not an Angel. Selected Poems of Eli Eliahu (Dos Madres, 2026), and Twenty Girls to Envy Me: Selected Poems of Orit Gidali, nominated for the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (University of Texas Press). Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry International, the Boston Review, the Iowa Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, and Gulf Coast online, among others. Sulak directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University, and edits the Ilanot Review.
