The Audacity to Be Ourselves: Writing What’s Real

with Julia Fehrenbacher

and Laurie Wagner

Awakening the Heart through Poetry

An Online Writing Experience with Moudi Sbeity

During this 90-minute class, we'll talk with Moudi about the spirit of his work — how he's used the heartbreak of war in Lebanon to crack open everything he knows about mercy, grace, and wonder. From that place, we'll do two short guided writes together.

In this class you'll:

Go inside the mind of a poet — an intimate conversation with one of today's most reverent literary voices
Discover the roots of his work — family, land, tradition, and a childhood steeped in custom
Learn how heartbreak becomes art — how Moudi turned the pain of war into poetry rooted in mercy, tenderness, and wonder
Get a first look at his debut collection, Alhamdulillah Anyway, straight from the source
Write alongside him — two guided short writing exercises to spark your own heart-opening work
Leave with a new way in — a model for writing that doesn't avoid pain, but transforms it into something luminous

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