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2015 Workshop:
"You are only a troubled guest on this dark earth" -- Goethe

Week 4 - February 25
"We Were God in our Eden"
the poetry of Vida Chu, Lorraine Henrie Lins, Bernadette McBride

All naure local, all access to the soul local: Lynn Levin: Birds on the Kiswar Tree

Field Guide --- semester project
Over the course of this Spring Workshop: create a FIELD GUIDE
it can be a field guide to slugs or wildflowers or things with wings
or terrors or small blessings or punk rock songs or poets…
but have at least 5 of the poems in your chapbook be modeled after
a Field Guide ---scientific description, coloration, means of identifying,
habitat, kind of "speech or song," location, habits, feeding

Read: Goodrich: Woman with a Wandering Soul

>> CLICK HERE TO SUMBIT POEMS How to OPP

 

Online Poetry Professor is presented by The Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (MCPL) www.MontcoPoet.com