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Writing as Discovery
Poetry with Stuart Kestenbaum
In his essay The Figure a Poem Makes, Robert Frost writes “no surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.” This workshop will provide opportunities for us to surprise ourselves, in Frost’s words, by “remembering something I didn’t know I knew.” We’ll create poems from images, memory, and observation. Activities will focus on generating new work and include short and long writing exercises, looking at examples of other writers, and discussing each other’s work. We’ll start without judging and follow the work where it needs to go.
Stuart Kestenbaum is the author of six collections of poems, most recently Things Seemed to Be Breaking (Deerbrook Editions, 2021) and a collection of essays The View From Here (Brynmorgen Press, 2012). He served as Maine’s poet laureate from 2016-2021. Former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser has written “Stuart Kestenbaum writes the kind of poems I love to read, heartfelt responses to the privilege of having been given a life. No hidden agendas here, no theories to espouse, nothing but life, pure life, set down with craft and love.”
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