WRITING POETRY WITH MARTHA HEYNEMAN AND KATE SORBARA

"...that which you fear, being

a soul and unable

to speak..."

With Martha in the morning stillness under the yellow-striped tent, and with the help of poems like Louise Glück's "Wild Iris," quoted above, we will listen inside for what the soul has been longing to say for so many years.

The soul is still alive

and will bubble up again

among friends.

In the afternoon, with Kate, we may wander a little around the Farm, absorbing colors and sounds and smells and writing from different settings—or not, according to individual whim and energy level.

Bring your favorite pen and a notebook with a stiff cover, for writing outside. No experience with reading or writing poetry is necessary--but if you have a poem you love and know by heart, please bring it to share with us.

Martha Heyneman graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of The Breathing Cathedral: Feeling Our Way into a Living Cosmos, and The Productions of Time: Collected Essays. She studied poetry writing with Lawrence Hart and Muriel Rukeyser at the California Labor School, San Francisco; with Karl Shapiro at Johns Hopkins; and with Jarold Ramsey and Bruce Berlind at the University of Rochester. In recent years she has led poetry writing groups in Toronto, New York, Washington, D.C., Phoenix, Cleveland, and Rochester.  

Kate Sorbara is a mother and a grandmother, a farmer, a gardener and a lover of rivers. She has been attending writing groups for twenty years, sometimes organizing them and sometimes being organized. Either way, she believes in their magic.

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