A 1-Day Poetry Workshop
Saturday, August 2nd, 11 AM - 4 PM
It isn’t about giving voice to anything forbidden, it’s about finding language to express the most difficult emotions and occurrences. Joy is often more difficult to express than sorrow. One’s own impending death may be more difficult to express than the death of another. A tumultuous world-wide event is close to impossible! But poets have succeeded in finding the language, shape, and structure to “say the unsayable,” through the many tools of poetry. In this one-day intensive, we will discuss those tools, and the meaning of “saying the unsayable;” read sample poems by a variety of poets; then the class will write their first drafts, and read them aloud to us. Here are titles of some of the poems we hope will inspire us:
Try to Praise the Mutilated World, i thank you god for most this amazing day, My Father’s Body, To Kill a Deer, Chest X- Ray, Middle Passage, Quarantine, Home, Alabanza, Refugee Blues.
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$120 Members/$175 Nonmembers
Estha Weiners newest poetry collection is This Insubstantial Pageant (Broadstone Books, 2022). She is also author of at the last minute ( Salmon Poetry) ; In the Weather of the World (Salmon Poetry); Transfiguration Begins at Home (Tiger Bark Press); The Mistress Manuscript (Asheville Book Works); and co-editor and contributor to Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews (University of Akron Press, Akron Poetry Series). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Republic, Plume, and Barrow Street. Winner of a Paterson Poetry Prize, Speaker on Shakespeare for NY Council for the Humanities, and Visiting Scholar at Shakespeare Institute, Stratford, England, Estha is founding director of Sarah Lawrence College NY Alumni Writers Nights. She is a professor at City College of N.Y. Dept. of English and Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute, and serves or has served on the Poetry/Writing faculties of The Frost Place, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Stone Coast Writers Conference, Poets and Writers, Poets House, and The Writers Voice. She also serves on the Advisory Committee of Slapering Hol Press, Hudson Valley Writers Center. In her previous life , she was an actor and worked for BBC Radio. Website: esthalynneweiner.blogspot.com. [Photo: Jeffrey Heiman.]
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