Saturday, May 2: Workshop in Columbia, SC

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!

  

A Writing Workshop
by the Broad River
in Columbia, SC

 

Susan Hendricks invites you for a day of poetry
and expressive writing among friends
in the natural setting of river, forest and wildlife

near downtown Columbia

  

Register:     

           Registration fee: $40

           By email to susanhendr@gmail.com

           By mail to 5 Possum Run, Columbia, SC 29223
           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