Jacob Scheier is a Governor General’s Award-winning poet and an essayist. His most recent full length poetry collection, Is This Scary? (ECW Press), was published in spring 2021. His poems have appeared in journals, magazines, and anthologies across North America and been nominated for a National Magazine Award. His essays have appeared in Brick and the Globe and Mail, amongst other publications. He has facilitated writing workshops on the subjects of disability and grief at Ryerson’s Chang School of Continuing Education and various communities in Canada, including with Workman Arts and Indigenous communities in the Yukon and Ontario.

Workshop Description: Pain, in its immediacy, lacks narrative: it’s a raw moment in time. In other words, pain calls for poetry. In this workshop we will explore, through writing poems, how to express the experience of physical and mental pain. We will share our writing—and have the rare experience of being truly listened to, in our radically subject experience of pain, with attentiveness and compassion.

Please be aware that spaces are limited to 12 participants. If you sign up, you should intend to attend. A wait list of another 12 possible participants will be taken to ensure the workshop reaches capacity.