Writing Poems all the Time

Instructor: Sara Larsen
Meeting dates & times: Tuesday in March (3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26) 7:30-9:30pm ET.
Location: Zoom
Tuition: $200 (contact sara.maria.larsen@gmail.com for sliding scale)

This workshop is designed for both experienced writers and total beginners, working in any genre. We will focus on generating new poems and writing and creating a sustainable writing practice. 

In this workshop we will both discuss ways to write poems “all the time”, and also ask ourselves the questions…why make poems? And why do it all the time?

A robust practice of writing can be initiated in a lot of unexpected ways, working with our minds, bodies and what we have at hand to make work and keep it going. But it’s  not just prompts and how-to’s…we also have to allow ourselves the ability to let go, sometimes be bad at it, sometimes brilliant, and cultivate some exceptional curiosity about the process in the meantime.

But there’s even more to it, right? Why write poetry? What is its relevance to our lives and our communities? How do we engage with an ongoing commitment to writing? The answers to these questions express our motivations, our dreams, our fears. They can block us or they can propel us forward into a life of creating strong, fascinating and exciting work.