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Poetry, a Breaking Wave: Spilling, Plunging, Collapsing, Surging — Workshop with Lara Mimosa Montes
Admission
- $150.00
Location
Virtual
Summary
5-Sessions | Mondays, April 3 - May 1 | 7 - 9 pm
Virtual
I have been struggling with belief in the most basic sense of the word. Belief. For months I inhabited long sequences of interrupted time where I dared to imagine the world without words. I was interested in phenomena, duration. I stopped writing poems. During this period I visited the ocean. I watched the waves as I imagined a life without poems which is not the same as life without poetry, or the force of poetry.
It was in this break that I started to experience my writing and my relationship to poetry change in tandem with the time spent watching the waves spilling, plunging, collapsing, surging.
This 5-week generative writing workshop is for those who have experienced a similar sense of doubt, silence, or withdrawal– an extended blankness– a crisis of belief. Inspired by the teachings and legacy of The Poetry Project, this workshop is intended to create space to dwell inside the sacred, devotional, invisible aspects of poetry. By “sacred” I mean language lost and forged in the break, in the presence of “a weird faith.” We’ll orient ourselves to the present moment and encounter the force of poetry: that which we cannot see. Rather than workshop existing writings, we’ll generate new writings, as we read and discuss works by Alice Notley, James Schuyler, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, C.D. Wright, Cedar Sigo, Ari Banias, and Dorothea Lasky.
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I have been struggling with belief in the most basic sense of the word. Belief. For months I inhabited long sequences of interrupted time where I dared to imagine the world without words. I was interested in phenomena, duration. I stopped writing poems. During this period I visited the ocean. I watched the waves as I imagined a life without poems which is not the same as life without poetry, or the force of poetry.
It was in this break that I started to experience my writing and my relationship to poetry change in tandem with the time spent watching the waves spilling, plunging, collapsing, surging.
This 5-week generative writing workshop is for those who have experienced a similar sense of doubt, silence, or withdrawal– an extended blankness– a crisis of belief. Inspired by the teachings and legacy of The Poetry Project, this workshop is intended to create space to dwell inside the sacred, devotional, invisible aspects of poetry. By “sacred” I mean language lost and forged in the break, in the presence of “a weird faith.” We’ll orient ourselves to the present moment and encounter the force of poetry: that which we cannot see. Rather than workshop existing writings, we’ll generate new writings, as we read and discuss works by Alice Notley, James Schuyler, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, C.D. Wright, Cedar Sigo, Ari Banias, and Dorothea Lasky.