About the Workshop

In this workshop, poets will explore multiple writing and revision techniques, drawing possibilities for new work from participants’ own work and poems by Yusef Komunyakaa, Jamaica Kincaid, Kim Addonizio, and Lucille Clifton among others. Taking inspiration from these poets, participants will learn to open up their poems to further invention and revise toward the invitation of mastery and surprise.

Jonathan Moody received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh where he was also a Cave Canem fellow. He is the published author of The Doomy Poems and Olympic Butter Gold (winner of the 2014 Cave Canem/Northwestern University Poetry Press Prize). His work has appeared in African American Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Common, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review and is forthcoming in the anthology Dear Mr. Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa.

Moody teaches AP English at South Houston High School and lives in Pearland, TX, with his wife and three sons.

Funding & Partners

This program is supported in part by the Poetry Foundation. Thank you to our partners at Inprint for providing space for the workshop, and Brazos Bookstore for providing space for the culminating reading.

For more information, please visit: https://www.brazosbookstore.com/event/further-invention-cave-canem-poetry-reading-jonathan-moody