Tracy Fuad at Ernst-Abbe-Bücherei Jena

Tracy Fuad taught at Ernst-Abbe-Bücherei Jena on the 6th of October 2023.

The workshop’s two seminars took place over the course of one day. At the beginning, the poet gave insights into her everyday life as a writer and her approach to writing poetry. The students worked through the fundamental elements of poetry and afterwards, Tracy Fuad shared an excerpt from „I remember“ by Joe Brainard and spoke to the students about the poem and what resonated with them. Afterwards, the students had two hours to work on their own poems. In the second part of the workshop, the students presented their work and talked about what they liked most about their classmates‘ poem.

Tracy Fuad’s debut collection, about:blank, was named as a finalist for the National Poetry Series and chosen by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize and was published in 2021 by University of Pittsburgh Press. ​Her second book of poetry, PORTAL (University of Chicago, 2024) won the 2023 Phoenix Emerging Poets Prize.

Tracy Fuad’s debut collection, about:blank, was named as a finalist for the National Poetry Series and chosen by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize and was published in 2021 by University of Pittsburgh Press.

A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Fuad’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review and The New Republic and have been translated into Kurdish, Turkish, German, and Spanish. She lives in Berlin, where she teaches poetry and directs the Berlin Writers’ Workshop.

Photography: Andreas Lamm for Holtzbrinck Berlin – Inspire Together.