Upcoming Classes and Readings
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First Saturday of each month, 10-12 pm EST
offered by Yellow Arrow Publishing, supporting women writers worldwide
currently on Zoom--join from anywhere!
New session starts March 6. It is currently sold out--please contact me if you would like to take part.
Topical Poetry at The Writer's Center
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Keep the wellspring of inspiration flowing this spring. Each week will focus on poems about a new topic: we’ll write of memory, of presence, of grief, of protest, and of art, among other things. Our teachers will be great poems, our content will be our own. Each class will include discussion of inspiring poems, guided free-writes, and sharing. Between classes you will have reading and journal assignments. You will come away with an extensive portfolio of poems and ideas for poems. Starts March 4, 1 pm
About me: I came to poetry suddenly, specifically, at age 46. Of course everything was leading to it—my decades studying music, my lifetime of voracious reading, along with my pursuit of consciousness through meditation and yoga—it all snapped into place. Within seven years of beginning, I had my MFA and a book and had begun teaching adults, children and teens the craft of writing.
There is nothing like the feeling of a poem being born into the world through your own hands, but as satisfying for me is the joy of seeing a poem come to the world through one of my student’s hands. The world comes a little more clearly into focus the more we look at it together through the lens of poetry. I hope that you will join me in this venture.
Ma
In Japan, Ma is the essential space of nothingness—the empty, the void.
I’ve been thinking about the in-between
places lately like the space between
words and the silence between notes
the summer between school years
the nights between days and how
essential the in-betweens are and what
I’m wondering is if death is the in-between
space or if life is