Writing Poetry [FULL]
On the principle of William
Blake’s admonition to “see the world in a grain of sand” we will sometimes
attend close up to the wealth of sensory details at the Farm, outdoors and
indoors; sometimes zoom out to the limits of the cosmos and beyond, to ponder
in verse the great metaphysical questions; and sometimes try embracing in a
single poem both the close up and the far out.
No experience is necessary. Every poem will be a new beginning for us all.
Bring your favorite pen, and a notebook with a stiff cover, in case we write
outdoors.
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
in 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.
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