Samiya Bashir
Write on Time: Restorative Poetics from Isolation to Revivification
August 11 to August 16, 2024
Time 9 am - 12 pm
Discipline: Poetry
Open To All
On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options
In this generative poetry-making workshop, we will sharpen our sound through focused specificity and sensory detail to write in, through, about, and around the many dimensions of time—physical and psychological, real and imagined. We will be wildly imaginative about space and place. “What is called its form,” wrote poet W.S. Merwin, “may be simply that part of the poem that had directly to do with time: the time of the poem, the time in which it was written, and the sense of recurrence in which the unique moment of vision is set.” Working together through a series of prompts considering restoration and revivification—form and flesh both—participants will leave this workshop with a handful of generously shared and considered poetry starts as well as tools and examples of process: seeds both for their own practice and to spread to all who need it.