Poetry As Deep Play

Experience writing as deep play—a way to stimulate your creativity, engage your intellect, increase your powers of focus and concentration, and have fun. Valuable for writers with an established creative practice as well as absolute beginners, this workshop opens with warm-up exercises that help you to center and gently stretch on the page. As in a yoga class, you can use forms or poses in order to shape and hold your work.

On Saturday, you learn four no-fail techniques for writing beautiful poems. The results are fresh and exciting experiments in language and feeling, what writer Heather Sellers calls “deep play for grown-ups.” In each exercise, Heather offers “modified poses”—easier or more challenging versions of the practice. In a friendly and nurturing atmosphere, this weekend also includes reading sacred and contemporary poetry.

Return home with a notebook bursting with new poems. No prior poetry experience is required, just paper and pencil.