Art/Lab Workshop: Daniela Molnar, "the things themselves"

“The most sensuous poets are the ones I trust the most,” says the poet Jorie Graham, citing the way that a word like “justice” can mean a thousand things to a thousand people while a word like “salt” has a much smaller range of possible associations. This workshop will focus our attention on the world of the senses and how writing from our senses can sharpen, heighten, and expand our poetry and our lives, offering a more empathetic and deeper engagement with our own writing, the writing of others, and with the living earth. The title of this workshop is a line from a Lucille Clifton poem. We’ll use this poem and a range of others as lenses to consider the ways our cultural and ecological moment is an invitation to widened wonder and love. This workshop is open to everyone. No prior experience with writing or reading poetry is needed or expected. We will talk, read, and write together. You’ll receive a bounty of readings and prompts to inspire your writing in the workshop and beyond.

Participants should bring:

writing materials

a “thing” that is dear to you — define “thing” as you see fit