Tender Haunt: A Poetry Workshop In-Person

Hosted by the Jersey City Free Public Library Creative Arts Center, this two-session writing workshop explores the autumnal poetics of absence, longing, & memory. Together, we’ll read work by poets who dwell in the space of memory, then write into the emotions of nostalgia and melancholia.

All writing levels welcome! 10 seats available. Free!

Dates & Times:

6:00pm - 7:45pm, Thursday, November 13, 2025
6:00pm - 7:45pm, Thursday, November 20, 2025

Registration Required through the Jersey City Free Public Library Creative Arts Center

About the Instructor: Lisa Marie Basile is an author, poet, and editor based in Jersey City, NJ and NYC. She is the author of a few books of poetry, including SAINT OF (White Stag Publishing, 2025), Nympholespy (Inside the Castle, 2019, which was a finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards selected by Bhanu Kapil), Apocryphal (Noctuary Press, 2014), and Andalucia (The Poetry Society of New York, 2012). She’s also written non-fiction, including Light Magic for Dark Times. She holds an MFA from The New School in NYC and is the founding editor of Luna Luna Magazine.