Sat. (Sept. 12): 9:00 –
11:45 a.m.
POETRY WORKSHOP with Susan Laughter Meyers
Advance Registration Required – $30
Sponsored
by The Grapevine, 11 West Main St. Burnsville
Dear
Snakeskin & Other Marvels of the Earth:
Letter Poems & Odes
Letter Poems & Odes
What
better opportunity to speak from the heart—to say what needs saying to wonders
of the Earth—than through poetry? Whether we, on behalf of the human race, have
gratitude to express or an apology to pay, here’s the chance to add our
voices. We’ll read some exemplary letter poems and odes that strike up a
conversation with the Earth—whether written to an atamasco lily, sunset,
blackbird, or bumble bees. As readers, we expect from poems the imaginative
and the relevant, the truthful and the surprising. Always, we hope,
beneath the surface of them lies urgency. Let’s immerse ourselves in both
poetry and the natural world—with discussion, a writing activity or two, and a
wealth of published poems to bend our ear closer to the earthly marvels we live
in the midst of. Class size limit – 25. Advance Registration Required –
$30
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Fri. (Sept. 11): 3:00 –
3:45 p.m. / Sat. (Sept. 12): 3:00 – 3:45 p.m.
Susan
Laughter Meyers
Nature’s Neglected: Poems
Celebrating the Uncelebrated
Taking a cue from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty”—and
its “Glory be to God for dappled things”—we’ll read and discuss poems that
bring our attention to such overlooked wonders as the capybara, the pipefish,
maybe even witchgrass and mud. Poems by Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, A. R. Ammons,
and others will give us this brief opportunity to deepen our appreciation of
the Earth—and learn more about ourselves—as we celebrate the uncelebrated.
See the complete Carolina Mountains Literary Festival schedule here.
