February 2025 Online Poetry ClassÂ
Temporary Kingdoms $1550 ($1450 early bird through 11/25/24)
with Danusha Laméris
In Kyoto,
hearing the cuckoo,
I long for Kyoto.
-BashĹŤ
All worlds come to an end. The worlds of childhood, the brand-new love affair, the world of once-was. Who we used to be. Where we used to live. The dream that never came to be. Poems are one of the ways we capture what is (or was/ or could be), press it to the page for safe-keeping. And a big part of what energizes written work is the sense of pointing toward home, toward something we hope to preserve, or arrive at, even if only in hope or memory. This is the everlasting allure of Eden, of Yeats’s home in “a bee-loud glade.”Â
Join me for an intimate (limited to 12 people) five-day workshop in which we’ll practice describing these kingdoms of the past/possible and see what they have to show us. I’ll give a daily craft talk, and we’ll read poems and write new ones. We’ll also share poems aloud in group and I will respond to individual work, with an attention to craft and content. As always, we’ll explore “is there anything under what I just said?” Let’s kick off the new year together in a fun, supportive community and come away with new poems.Â
