The Weight of the Unknown: Writing from the unconstricted throat with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
JANUARY 20, RIDGWAY, CO
10 A.M. TO 4 P.M.
We live in a culture that wants to know-we chart, graph, test, outline, classify, name and judge. But what of all the messiness, mystery and unruly potential that breeds beneath our longing for certainty? What would happen when we engage, as Adrienne Rich writes, with “the weight of the unknown, the untracked, the unrealized?” In this workshop we’ll explore how we might draw strength from “the great muscle of metaphor,” launching our poems and ourselves into the vast realm of possibility. We’ll read poems that lead us deeper into paradox and write poems that know more than we do. Let’s see what even a small bit of wonder might do …
This class is a reprise, back by request, with all new content but has the same emphasis on curiosity and play.
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