Pay Attention Be Astonished

Monday – Friday Morning.  Teen – 16+

Poetry is an art form of the present, in all its nuances and details. This is a workshop about the practice of poetry, that prayerful space in which our lives — and the words we use to understand our world — become especially precious. We’ll read and savour the particularities of select poems; pay attention to our surroundings, feelings, and hunches; then write our own poems in response to open-ended prompts. In gathering to explore this art form that begins in, and maximizes, wonder, we’ll enter the zone where language and experience meet: the bewilderingly vast time of now.