**This class will be taught In-Person**
Poet Stanley Kunitz wrote: “Poems would be easy if our heads weren’t so full of the day’s clatter. The task is to get through to the other side, where we can hear the deep rhythms that connect us with the stars and the tides.”
Does the day’s clatter seem especially loud right now? Join us this summer for six weeks of reading and writing poems that help us get through to another side. Together we’ll listen for deep, connecting rhythms and look at poems from a variety of times and places that comfort and provoke, nourish our souls and advocate for change.
Throughout history, while regimes have shredded safety nets and oppressed people, poets have woven beautiful, lasting webs of words and inspired/uplifted people. In this class, we’ll read and write both spiritual and political poetry that engages eloquently with our inner and outer worlds: prayers, manifestos, meditations, calls to action…sometimes all rolled into one!
Week by Week Outline
Week 1 Contemplative poems close to home
Week 2 Contemplative international poems
Week 3 Political poems of the United States
Week 4 Political poems globally
Week 5 Blending contemplative/political themes and approaches
Week 6 Blending contemplative/political themes and approaches
