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Sarkisian Workshop Series: Nature, Poetry, and Environmental Collapse with Moheb Soliman
Join the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) for the third installment of the Sarkisian Workshop Series: Nature, Poetry, and Environmental Collapse with Moheb Soliman. The virtual workshop will take place on May 31, 2026, at 9:00 AM Pacific | 12:00 PM Eastern | 8:00 PM Armenia Time.
Poetry has a singular capacity to capture our obscure relationship with the non-human living world. But how can this adapt to a world fraught with threats of environmental collapse? Through ecopoetic texts and writers as well as Moheb’s own work about the Great Lakes region, this workshop will explore how contemporary nature writers can navigate between romanticizing the natural sphere, eulogizing its death, and poeticizing environmentalism. Together, we will discuss and write about our experiences embodying and rendering natural-cultural spaces and reckon with human desire, humility, alienation, and ambivalence in this era where nature poetry and climate change must co-exist.
Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest who’s presented work at literary, art, and public spaces around North America and abroad with support from diverse institutions. His debut poetry collection HOMES was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and others, and explores nature, modernity, identity, belonging, and sublimity through the site of the Great Lakes bioregion/borderland. He attended the New School for Social Research and the University of Toronto and lives in Minneapolis, where he is executive editor and literary program director for the Arab American arts organization Mizna.
Ticket Price: $20 for each individual workshop
Please reach out to info@armenianliterary.org if you are interested in joining, but the registration price is prohibitive.
The Sarkisian Workshop Series 2026: Can Storytelling Save Us? is brought to you by IALA, Mizna, and Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW). Funded by the Sarkisian Foundation for the Arts and Engineering, the series offers six writing workshops by award-winning authors Sarah Aziza, Peter Balakian, Olivia Katrandjian, Arthur Kayzakian, Moheb Soliman, and Diane Wilson.
