Ideas Everywhere! Inspirations for Poetry
Fri, Sep 22
|Frenchville
During this retreat, we’ll focus on generating poems from both the mundane and the miraculous, using—as time permits—the arts (paintings, photographs, movies, music), sacred texts and rituals, nature, news, place, sports, and the medical as springboards.
Time & Location
Sep 22, 2023, 9:00 AM – Sep 24, 2023, 5:00 PM
Frenchville, 1031 Germania Rd, Frenchville, PA 16836, USA
About the Event
Ideas Everywhere! Inspirations for Poetry
September 22 to 24, 2023
Facilitator: Marjorie Maddox,
Award Winning Author, Retreat Leader, & Poet
The everyday, the eternal, and everything in between—ideas for poems are everywhere! During this retreat, we’ll focus on generating poems from both the mundane and the miraculous, using—as time permits—the arts (paintings, photographs, movies, music), sacred texts and rituals, nature, news, place, sports, and the medical as springboards. By drafting, revising, and discussing poems in a supportive community, we’ll consider how one poetic choice leads to another, each contributing to the work’s overall effect. Arrive ready to engage, experiment, write, laugh. Leave with new ideas and strategies for future poems.
Professor of English at Lock Haven University, Marjorie Maddox has published 13 collections of poetry—most recently Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize); Begin with a Question (Paraclete Press, International Book Award Winner), and Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (Shanti Arts), an…
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Poetry Retreat
Offering: $275.00 (includes 2 nights, meals, lodging and deposit) Deposit: $75.00
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