On Saturday, September 26th, the Red Barn Studio Museum will host its second Poetry at the Barn, a day-long celebration of poetry featuring workshops, lunch, and a public reading to wrap up the event.
Three poets will spend the day at the Red Barn, each leading a workshop and reading their own work during an early evening program open to the public. The featured poets include Caleb Braun, Assistant Professor of English at Bethany College; Huascar Medina, Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus (2019-2022) and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow; and Jasmine Khaliq, a Ph.D. Candidate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Utah.
Each poet will guide a unique workshop designed to inspire writers at all experience levels. Participants will spend the day writing, connecting, and sharing ideas, with a lunch included as part of the registration.
The day will conclude with a free and open to the public poetry reading at 4:00 p.m. on the front lawn of the Red Barn Studio Museum. Workshop participants will have the option to share a poem they created during the day, followed by readings from Braun, Medina, and Khaliq.
Workshop registration is required; the registration deadline is September 21st.
The cost is $15 per workshop or $30 to attend two or more. Students may register for $10, and are asked to bring a student ID to the event. Lunch is included for all registered participants.
Sponsoring this event are The Lindsborg Arts Council and Red Barn Studio Museum.
Cost:
- REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY September 21st
- Students: $10
- General Public: $15 per workshop or $30 for two or more
- Lunch will be provided for all workshop participants
Schedule & Workshop Details:
- 10:00–11:30 AM – Workshop with Caleb Braun
- Odes and Elegies: Tense Joys and Strange Laments: This workshop will help you engage with the ancient poetic genres of ode and elegy. We will discover how these genres rely on emotional transformation—from joy to sorrow, desolation to exaltation, and back again—to achieve poetic insight. We will read together a variety of poets, such as Ross Gay, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, and Lucille Clifton, and then produce our own transformative odes and elegies.
- 11:30–12:30 PM – Lunch provided by The Red Barn Studio Museum (gluten-free and vegetarian options available)
- 12:30–2:00 PM – Workshop with Jasmine Khaliq
- Expanding the Image: Perception, Sensation, and Transformation: This interactive workshop will expand the ways we approach, write, and transform images in our writing to create experiences, surprise, and meaning. Together, we will read poets such as Brigit Pegeen Kelley, Lindsey Webb, and Agha Shahid Ali to work out how we can truly attend to, play with, lean into, and get the most out of our images. We will then write our own image-driven poems using the new pathways and strategies discussed.
- Expanding the Image: Perception, Sensation, and Transformation: This interactive workshop will expand the ways we approach, write, and transform images in our writing to create experiences, surprise, and meaning. Together, we will read poets such as Brigit Pegeen Kelley, Lindsey Webb, and Agha Shahid Ali to work out how we can truly attend to, play with, lean into, and get the most out of our images. We will then write our own image-driven poems using the new pathways and strategies discussed.
- 2:00–3:30 PM – Workshop with Huascar Medina
- Emoting: Epistolary Poetry: An Epistolary Poem is a verse written in the form of a letter, often beginning with “Dear,” incorporating vivid imagery and deep emotional resonance. This intensive workshop will use perspective shifts as empathy-building letter-writing exercises that will culminate in a rich, emotionally textured epistolary poem. Participants will be asked to share throughout the writing process in a group setting. Sharing is voluntary; writing is required.
- Emoting: Epistolary Poetry: An Epistolary Poem is a verse written in the form of a letter, often beginning with “Dear,” incorporating vivid imagery and deep emotional resonance. This intensive workshop will use perspective shifts as empathy-building letter-writing exercises that will culminate in a rich, emotionally textured epistolary poem. Participants will be asked to share throughout the writing process in a group setting. Sharing is voluntary; writing is required.
- 3:30–4:00 PM – Break
- 4:00–5:30 PM – Public Poetry Reading
- Readings by workshop participants
- Caleb Braun
- Jasmine Khaliq
- Huascar Medina
Meet the Poets:
Caleb Braun’s poems have appeared in POETRY, Best New Poets, The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, The Cincinnati Review, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Bethany College in Lindsborg. Visit Caleb’s website at calebbraun.com.
Jasmine Khaliq is the author of Somewhere Horses, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editors’ Prize, forthcoming April 2027. Her poetry is found in Best New Poets 2023, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Passages North, Poet Lore, The Rumpus, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from San Francisco State University and an MFA from University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, Jasmine is a Ph.D. Candidate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Visit her website at jasminekhaliq.com.
Huascar Medina is a poet, editor, essayist and letter writer. He is a Kansas poet laureate emeritus (2019-2022) and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. He is the author of How to Hang the Moon (Spartan Press), Un Mango Grows in Kansas (Spartan Press), Protest as Love Poem (Meadowlark Press) and the forthcoming Prairie Fool (Plainspoken Books, 2027), a collection of lyrical essays on politics, class, and culture.
He serves as senior editor at South Broadway press, Lit editor at seveneightfive magazine, and as a contributing op-ed writer at the Kansas Reflector. His works have appeared in the Flint Hills Review, Gasconade Review, Green Mountains Review, Kansas Magazine, Latino Book Review, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Visit Huascar’s website at huascarmedina.com.
