CMA Poetry Workshop with Catherine Carter

NetWest member Catherine Carter will teach a poetry workshop for Cullowhee Mountain Arts from June 26-July 1.  This workshop will offer an opportunity for students to explore their relationship with the nonhuman through poetry; if we've ever been in a place that feels sacred, special, or magical, or had a relationship with animals or gardens, or cherished a secret sense of identification with Batman’s botanical nemesis Poison Ivy, we've participated in the construction of and the relationship with nature.  More, though, if we drive—if we eat—if we breathe, we're also interacting with the nonhuman, because all that we have and are, and all that we’ll ever have or be, comes from the world we inhabit.  This workshop will explore ways to articulate that relationship through language.  We’ll look at the ways in which accessible, enjoyable poems by authors like Robert Morgan, Mary Oliver, Ron Rash, and Sarah Lindsay engage with the nonhuman and with particular places, and we’ll write and revise our own poems about our own engagements with what’s not-us.  Weather permitting, we may go outside to practice the art of looking at what’s there; it’s surprising what you can see in a few minutes, if you pay attention.  Students should leave with new poems to work on and new inspiration for future work; all levels of writers are welcome.


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