“Practicing Poetry” begins January 13, 2021 for six online sessions through March 24th. The class will meet twice a month on Wednesday nights 5:00-6:30 pm eastern, over Zoom. Students can register for weekly sessions here to receive the login link. Please register for every Wednesday you wish to attend. Thanks to Delaware Libraries, registration is free! We welcome teens and adults, all levels, including beginners. In Practicing Poetry, we'll generate new poems from prompts and model poems. We'll read work…

     . . . from this yard I have been composing a great speech, that I write about myself, that it’s good to be a poet, that I look like the drawing of a house that was pencilled by a child, that curiously, I miss him and my mind is not upon the Pleaides, that I love the ocean and its foam against the sky                            …

                                                In the wren song of brief rain, what matters is that we instill the darkness with jade  --Arthur Sze, "The Angle of Reflection equals the Angle of Incidence" To write poetry is to believe in renewal, invigoration and regeneration. Can poetry heal the world? If the answer is 'yes,' then hope lies in each poet's insistence…

This is a virtual class held via Zoom. This poetry writing class, suitable for beginning and experienced writers, will take inspiration from the natural world. We will write, in other words, about our relationship to our worlds, and our responsibilities to each other. For example, we will read Juliana’s Spahr’s long poem “Gentle Now, Don’t Add to Heartache."   And we will read works of contemporary poets, and share selected visual art in the Delaware Art Museum’s collection. Participants will…