The Poet as Seeker
With
Susan
Laughter Meyers, instructor
Saturday, May 2, 2015
10 until 3
"Not knowing when the dawn will
come, I open every door," says Emily Dickinson. What better way for a poet
to become seeker than to make the self available to possibility? As poets, we
have questions to ask, some without answers; leaps to make, risks to take;
mysteries to ponder. We must pay attention and be patient--which is to say, we
must be willing to listen to the poem as it is being written.
In this workshop we'll head out into the
unknown, as we read exemplary poems from our class packet and generate new work
of our own. (Feel free, too, to bring a poem draft that you're working on in an
attempt to reach a deeper level in some way.) As seekers, we'll follow Bernard
Malamud's advice to "Teach yourself to work in uncertainty." Who
knows where our poems will end up? Come, let us open every door--and window!
Susan
Hendricks invites you for a day of poetry
and expressive writing among friends
in the natural setting of river, forest and wildlife
and expressive writing among friends
in the natural setting of river, forest and wildlife
near
downtown Columbia
Register:
Registration fee: $40
By
mail to 5 Possum Run, Columbia, SC 29223
For Questions, phone 803-788-6826
For Questions, phone 803-788-6826
Limited to 25 participants
Directions will be provided to registered
participants
Susan
Laughter Meyers, of Givhans, SC, is the
author of My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass, winner of the Cider Press Review
Editors Prize. Her collection Keep and Give Away (University of South
Carolina Press, 2006) won the SC Poetry Book Prize, the SIBA Book Award for
Poetry, and the Brockman-Campbell Book Award.
A long-time writing instructor, she has an MFA from Queens University of
Charlotte. http://susanmeyers.blogspot.com
