Students will use journals as a way to record everyday observations in the natural world, and their dreams, as a way to explore the unconscious mind. Students will use synchronous events as motifs and everyday signs to build poems and craft a new sense of awareness. Every week students are given prompts as tools for transforming ideas and words. We will study poems, genre, style and experiment with various forms to unlock the inner creative spirit that we all possess.
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Students will use journals as a way to record everyday observations in the natural world, and their dreams, as a way to explore the unconscious mind. Students will use synchronous events as motifs and everyday signs to build poems and craft a new sense of awareness. Every week students are given prompts as tools for transforming ideas and words. We will study poems, genre, style and experiment with various forms to unlock the inner creative spirit that we all possess.
Gloria Monaghan is a Professor of Humanities at Wentworth Institute in Boston. She has published two chapbooks and three books of poetry. Her chapbooks include; Flawed (Finishing Line Press) and Torero (Nixes Mate). Her books of poetry are The Garden (Flutter Press), False Spring (Adelaide), and Hydrangea (Kelsay Books). Her poems have appeared in Alexandria Quarterly, 2River, Adelaide, Aurorean, Chiron, Nixes-Mate, First Literary Review East, among others. In 2018 her poem, “Into Grace” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her book False Spring was nominated for the Griffin Prize.
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