Teaching a 6-week online class beginning October 9:
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Growing Earth Poems
How might we grow a poem draft in the way a vine climbs, leafs out, and spangles in full? In this workshop, we will draft earth poems, then see what they really want to say, to become, how they desire to fully flower. We’ll see what’s beyond the stage of good enough, leaning into a poem’s later season of ripe surprise. If a poem has roots (the unseen, unsaid), a stem (the stanza body), leaves (the scaffold of words), then how might we best let it flourish into flower and fruit (the gifts your poem delivers)? We will see what we might learn from the earth as we write poems for the earth—a river poem in the rhythm of water, a stone poem with the density of stone.
This online course meets over six Thursdays from 10 am to1pm Pacific Time, October 9 to November 13.
Application window: July 20 – August 5
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