Shadow, Mirror: Writing Jungian-Informed Poems — 4-Hour Online Poetry Seminar with Joan Kwon Glass and Leila Farjami Starts Saturday, April 17th, 2027
Shadow, Mirror Poetry Workshop | Apr 2027 Online
Shadow, Mirror Writing Workshop: Writing Jungian-Informed Poems with Joan Kwon Glass and Leila Farjami
Begins Saturday, April 17, 2027
Class will meet once via Zoom on Saturday, 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM ET
🌍 Class Times by Time Zone:
- Los Angeles (PDT): 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
- Chicago (CDT): 11:30 AM – 3:30 PM
- New York (EDT): 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
- London (BST): 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM
- Berlin (CEST): 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM
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Instructor Joan Kwon Glass is a diasporic, mixed-race, Korean American poet and the author of the poetry collection Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, which won the 2025 Paterson Poetry Prize, the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry, the IPPY Gold Medal for Poetry & the Perugia Press Poetry Prize & was a finalist for the 2025 Balcones Poetry Prize & the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize. Her book Night Swim won the 2021 Diode Book Prize. Joan’s poems have been featured on NPR & in Poetry, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, Korea Quarterly, Prairie Schooner & elsewhere. She is a 2025 SWWIM Writer in Residence & has been a visiting writer at The Frost Place, the Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst College, Smith College & Wesleyan University. Joan lives near New Haven, CT.
Instructor Leila Farjami is an Iranian-American poet, translator, and psychotherapist, and the author of Daughter of Salt (Trio House Press, 2026), an Editor’s Selection. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize, The Iowa Review Award in Poetry, The Cincinnati Review’s Schiff Award, and a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and Copper Nickel, among others. She lives in Los Angeles. Find her at leilafarjami.com and @leila_poetry.
Who is this class for?
This online poetry workshop is designed for poets who are interested in discovering and exploring their "shadow selves" through reading mentor texts & excerpts of Jungian philosophy. All levels are welcome. Students will leave with several new poem drafts.
What to expect:
In Shadow, Mirror, students will receive an introduction to the Jungian concept of "the shadow self," read mentor poems that implicitly explore this concept & generate new poems by responding to thoughtfully crafted, original writing prompts. We will explore the poetic turn & practice writing endings that do not attempt resolution, but rather invite further questions & invoke curiosity.
This four-hour, generative online writing class is a unique opportunity to learn from & write with two trauma-informed teaching poets, one of whom is a psychotherapist by trade. Joan and Leila will use the Amherst Writers & Artists approach to generating & sharing new work.
Students will leave this live Zoom poetry workshop with several new poem drafts and new ways of thinking & writing about our "dark sides" as well as the protective measures we have used in the past that may be obstructing movement in our lives. The last 15 minutes of class are set aside for sharing work aloud, which is optional.
What are the writing goals?
In this course, students will develop strategies for and practice applying Jungian ideas in their poems, write several new poem drafts, and receive additional take-home prompts in order to continue their work. This is a generative writing workshop, so instructor feedback is not included.
Readings
Readings may include excerpts from Symbols of Transformation by Carl Gustav Jung and poems by writers such as Rumi, Ocean Vuong, Ada Limón & Sharon Olds.
COURSE OUTLINE
This single, four-hour session will include:
- An introduction to the Jungian concept of "the shadow self," with excerpts of Jungian philosophy
- Mentor poems that implicitly explore the shadow
- New poems generated in response to original writing prompts
- The poetic turn, and practice writing endings that invite further questions & invoke curiosity
- 15 minutes at the end of class to share work aloud (optional)
COURSE TAKEAWAYS:
- Strategies for applying Jungian ideas in your poems, and practice using them
- Several new poem drafts
- Additional take-home prompts to continue your work
- New ways of thinking & writing about our "dark sides" and the protective measures that may be obstructing movement in our lives
PAYMENT OPTIONS:
Tuition is $199 USD. You can pay for the course in full or use Shop Pay or Affirm to pay over time with equal Monthly Payments. Both options are available at checkout.
ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:
- Instructors: Joan Kwon Glass and Leila Farjami
- Begins Saturday, April 17, 2027
- Class will meet once via Zoom on Saturday, 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM ET
- Tuition is $199 USD.