Unlocking Knowledge, Inspiring Growth
Rooted in Fahmidan’s desire to spread knowledge and literary excellence, Fahmidan Education is dedicated to fostering curiosity, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. Fahmidan Education strives to further understanding and the pursuit of knowledge across cultures and societies, we design and deliver high-impact educational workshops that empower learners of all ages.
Our workshops blend innovative teaching methodologies with engaging, hands-on experiences, ensuring that participants don’t just learn but truly understand. Fahmidan Education desires to transform one’s learning experience into an immersive journey, equipping individuals with the skills and knowledge to thrive in an ever-evolving world.
At Fahmidan Education, we believe that learning should be more than memorization—it should be a gateway to deeper insight, creativity, and personal growth. Fahmidan, meaning "to understand" in Farsi, reflects our commitment to true comprehension and intellectual exploration. Currently specializing in literary workshops, we create spaces where participants can engage deeply with texts, storytelling, and critical analysis. Join us in the pursuit of understanding, and let’s redefine literary education together.
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Donna Vorreyer
Donna is the author of Unrivered (forthcoming, 2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her poetry, fiction, and essay work have appeared in Ploughshares, Cherry Tree, Poet Lore, Salamander, Harpur Palate, Booth, and elsewhere. She lives and creates in the Chicago area where she hosts the monthly online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey and is a co-founder/editor of the online journal Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters.
Writing the Short Poem
SEPTEMBER 13 2025 | 12:00 - 15:00 EST
Creating Sonic Landscapes in Writing: A Multi-Genre Workshop
In a hustle culture that pushes us to achieve, produce and consume more, where bloated rhetoric is the name of the game, the short poem can be a fleeting moment of joy, surprise, recognition, or resignation: receiving a smile, feeling a tight muscle loosen, the quick sting of an insect, or the ripping of a bandage.
In this workshop, we will read and discuss contemporary short poems and investigate four basic elements that are common and crucial to their success before making an attempt at drafting a very short poem at the end of the workshop.
Featuring poems by Hedgie Choi, Jane Huffman, Amorak Huey, Jane Hirschfield, Andrea Cohen, & Kyra Lisse.
NOVEMBER 29 2025 | 13:00 - 15:00 EST
When people discuss sound in writing, they often refer to the three most common elements: rhyme, alliteration, and assonance. These are excellent and time-honored ways of paying attention to sound in poems, however, there are other ways to incorporate sounds in interesting and playful ways. This workshop will use those ideas in new contexts, expanding to explore the creation of “sonic landscapes” for writing, using linguistic soundscapes and anagrams to experiment with connotation and wordplay.