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Poetry as a Transformative Path:
a poetry workshop w/ Lisa M. Cole

Saturday, October 18, 2014
12:00-3:00
Cost: $30
To register please email casakeepers[at]casalibre.org

Class Description

This three hour workshop will explore how poetry is used as a vehicle to push us towards internal renovation and renewal. Examining a handful of contemporary poems by such authors as Louise Glück, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Joy Harjo. Sharon Olds, Jack Gilbert, and Mary Oliver, we will ask questions of ourselves and others: How can poetry be transformative? How can it be used as a mechanism for healing and for growth? How can it rejuvenate our lives and assuage our grief? What do these poems ignite in us and how do we utilize this energy in our own work? How do these authors achieve their desired effects? Open to poets of all levels of experience, this workshop will offer time for discussion, brainstorming, and optional sharing of the work we produce.

Teacher Bio:

Lisa M. Cole is the author of the poetry collections Heart Full of Tinders and Dreams of the Living, and is a contributor to Wood Becomes Bone: A Mental Health Awareness Series, all three titles forthcoming from ELJ publications. Lisa has also written six chapbooks; most recently The Bodyscape from Dancing Girl Press, & the forthcoming Living in a Lonely House also from Dancing Girl Press. Lisa was a runner-up in SLAB's Elizabeth R. Curry poetry contest, and her poem "To Love You is to Vex You Now" can be found in the newest issue of SLAB. You can find out more about her at her new website http://lisamcole.blogspot.com/