Dear Poets, Writers & Artists near & far~

 I write with one more invitation to my upcoming course Poetry & the Body. An invitation to join a group of fellow heart-centered humans as we write our way through past and present adversity, integrate life's complexity and create stability in our inner and outer worlds through our words. To experience body as abode, and the way our humanness is our divinity. To explore in creative community the alchemy involved in transforming our humanness into poetry that is a doorway, allowing us to connect more deeply with ourselves, each other, and something larger.

As Denise Levertov says in her book the poet in the world (yes, the title is lower case!) "The communion is triple: between the maker and the needers outside her; those who need but can't make their own poems (or who do make their own but need this one, too); and between the human and the divine in both poet and reader." Levertov also speaks about the maker and needer inside us all, and the way these elements are interdependent, reliant on one another to communicate authentically with and more fully understand ourselves and those around us. 

Art and poetry have always been reflective of shifts and changes within our human lives and the society and world we live in, and poetry has always been an anchor for me, tethering me to myself and what matters most through life's transitions big and small. It is also a way of documenting meaningful shifts in how we understand ourselves in the context of a larger society, allowing us to connect with each other around our shared humanity alongside our unique differences of identify and self-expression in a beautiful and broken-open world.

Poetry & the Body 
August 12-September 16 
Virtual Campfires: 5-8PM EDT 

I am inspired by the group that is gathering for this course, and for us all to bear witness to the ways our bodies carry our life experiences, and poetry can be a vehicle for exploring our relationship to our stories. In this course, we will experiment with craft tools like voice, imagery, point of view, language and compositional form to support the self-exploration that gives rise to our unique, embodied voice. Through our personal poetry, we can deepen our understanding and appreciation of the diversity and complexity within us, and in those around us. From this place, our personal poetry becomes part of a dialogue within a larger collective.

Reserve Your Seat Here
Space is limited to 12 and filling! 

By the end of this workshop, you will have generated drafts of new poems, revised others, explored the way form is a "revelation of content" (in the words of Denise Levertov) and learned new self-care skills to sustain your own creative writing practice. You will have continued to cultivate a relationship with your own authentic voice, and will have new poetry tools to care for mind, body & spirit in a beautiful and overwhelming 21st century world.

I can't wait to see what we co-create. 

In Poetry & Creative Solidarity,
Lindsey