Join Professor Chloe Martinez for a brief poetry workshop, no experience required. We'll learn about the ghazal, a poetic form that originated in 7th-century Arabia, gained popularity with medieval Persian poets like Rumi, and continues to be used around the world, including by modern American poets. We'll read a few different kinds of ghazals and try writing our own.

Chloe Martinez (she/her) is a scholar of South Asian religions and a poet. She is the Associate Director of Programming for the Center for Writing and Public Discourse at Claremont McKenna College, as well as Lecturer in CMC's Department of Religious Studies. She is the author of the poetry collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works, 2021) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press, 2020); co-editor, with Lisa Van Orman Hadley, of an anthology of essays on writing and ADHD (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming March 2026); and translator of a collection of the poems of 16th-century North Indian poet-saint Mirabai (New Directions, forthcoming 2027).