Transformation Poetry Workshop
We live in a moment of cultural uncertainty and upheaval.
There are world events that we can exert little control over. We can find our spirits pressed down upon by technological and algorithmic sensibilities. AI, surveillance, war, strife.
It is through facing ourselves head on, through the imaginative engagement of coming together, resisting the thought-terminiating cliches of our age, to gather and write poems, that can foster, deepen, and heal communities and individuals. The world beyond ourselves will continue to commit to things we vehemently are against — but there is room for the individual in all this. There is a place for the enfleshment, the beautiful, the spiritual, the transcendent, wisdom.
Each of us are products of culture and we also build culture. And each of us are individuals, who – despite also being social and political beings – have individual responsibilities that affect ourselves, families, friends, communities and world writ large.
To write transformatively isn’t to force transformation into the writing, it is to allow our work to surprise or delight us. And, in the context of this workshop, it is to fashion a community of collaboration and connection, to find the ways to express that which feels otherwise inexpressible and, upon finding its right expression, to revel, delight, turn, and transmute – so we can continue on, to challenge, to resist the cliches of our age, the passing down of faux wisdom from pundits and “thought leaders,” and, discover in our own language, the language which presses against these things,
Throughout this workshop, we will gather, read poems, and, most essentially, write poems together. In the collective vessel, voices with separate, synthesize, blend, whir, and — at the end — we’ll know something about ourselves and our fellow humans that we didn’t know beforehand.
Workshop Schedule:
WEEK 1: Writing poems of Shadow/Light
WEEK 2: Writing a Spiritual Poem of Praise
WEEK 3: Writing an ecological poem
WEEK 4: Writing the phenomenological poem
Workshop Dates:
To be Announced
We live in a moment of cultural uncertainty and upheaval.
There are world events that we can exert little control over. We can find our spirits pressed down upon by technological and algorithmic sensibilities. AI, surveillance, war, strife.
It is through facing ourselves head on, through the imaginative engagement of coming together, resisting the thought-terminiating cliches of our age, to gather and write poems, that can foster, deepen, and heal communities and individuals. The world beyond ourselves will continue to commit to things we vehemently are against — but there is room for the individual in all this. There is a place for the enfleshment, the beautiful, the spiritual, the transcendent, wisdom.
Each of us are products of culture and we also build culture. And each of us are individuals, who – despite also being social and political beings – have individual responsibilities that affect ourselves, families, friends, communities and world writ large.
To write transformatively isn’t to force transformation into the writing, it is to allow our work to surprise or delight us. And, in the context of this workshop, it is to fashion a community of collaboration and connection, to find the ways to express that which feels otherwise inexpressible and, upon finding its right expression, to revel, delight, turn, and transmute – so we can continue on, to challenge, to resist the cliches of our age, the passing down of faux wisdom from pundits and “thought leaders,” and, discover in our own language, the language which presses against these things,
Throughout this workshop, we will gather, read poems, and, most essentially, write poems together. In the collective vessel, voices with separate, synthesize, blend, whir, and — at the end — we’ll know something about ourselves and our fellow humans that we didn’t know beforehand.
Workshop Schedule:
WEEK 1: Writing poems of Shadow/Light
WEEK 2: Writing a Spiritual Poem of Praise
WEEK 3: Writing an ecological poem
WEEK 4: Writing the phenomenological poem
Workshop Dates:
To be Announced