The poet Alice Oswald says, “Poems are written in the sound house of a whole body.”
This 4-week workshop will be about exploring your “sound houses,” the delight of generating poems, reading and crafting poems, and sharing poems with each other. We will read a wide selection of poetry, and enjoy the process of working with words, watching them dance. Together we will experience the thrill that the process of writing poems brings us, to see what we know beyond what we think we know, to let our poems teach us about our inner worlds and how they interact with the present moment.
Enrollment is limited to 12 students.
Class meets online on Wednesdays: February 12, 19, 26, and March 5 from 6:30-9 pm.
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Eléna Rivera is a poet and translator. Born in Mexico City, and raised in Paris, France, she now resides in New York City. She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, most recently Scaffolding and A Test of Labor. She is the winner of the 2010 Robert Fagles prize for her translation of Bernard Noël's The Rest of the Voyage. “Scaffolding is a profound meditation. One cannot but fall in love with the book, and its city, that Rivera has given us,” writes the Cincinnati Review.
Poetry with Eléna Rivera
Creative Writing Workshop
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