WORKSHOPS & EVENTS CALENDAR,
Poetry is knowledge, salvation, power, abandonment. An operation capable of changing the world, poetic activity is revolutionary by nature; a spiritual exercise, it is a means of interior liberation. Poetry reveals this world; it creates another. -Octavio Paz
Event Archives 2022
FEBRUARY – MARCH, 2023
ONLINE!
THE MAGIC OF THE POETIC LINE
w/Sawnie Morris
Description: We have come through, and are not yet done with, difficult times. It’s good to remember we all descend from ancestors who survived eras in history as bad or worse –- ancestors starting with the tiny microbes that clustered to shape the organisms that evolved into who we are now, as well as into the plants and animals who are our distant, yet entirely present, kin. Such a creative journey is intrinsic to our very make-up and is always a matter of exploring forms that provide resilience and give the life force expression. Tat expression may be as gentle and quiet as a lily pad, as internal as a worm, as stately as a big horned sheep, or as active as a tiger, but the dynamism of the earth and the cosmos sings in each. In this workshop, we will explore a range of forms –– traditional as well as free-verse –– and approaches through which the poetic imagination may express itself. Each week, you’ll receive poems and prompts to inspire and to use as you wish in the making of your own poems, along with craft notes. Each week we’ll share our poems with one another in a generous, respectful, and informed workshop format, with brief written comments on your poems from Sawnie and the opportunity to meet with her during “office hours.” Each week we will open ourselves to the presence and the resilience of the poetic imagination.
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- Workshop Dates: Sundays, February 5 – March 26, 2023, 8 weeks,
- Time: 1pm – 3:45/4pm Mountain Time
- Location: Online via zoom
- Technical requirements: A computer with a built-in camera and the ability to send and receive email attachments in a word doc format
- Course Fee: $500 if received by January 27, 2023, $525 if received after January 27nd, 2023
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If you would like to contribute to the Poetry Workshop Scholarship Fund, in order to make it possible for someone to attend a workshop who would otherwise be unable to do so, please let me know. Likewise, if you want to apply for a scholarship, please let me know and I will put your name on the list.
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- Two steps to confirm your place in the workshop:
- 1) Contact Sawnie
- 2) Pay the course fee by check or Zelle
- Two steps to confirm your place in the workshop:
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- To pay by check, send to:
- Sawnie Morris
- 54 Vista Linda Road
- Ranchos de Taos, NM 87557. (notice that the address is not “Taos”)
- To pay by Zelle:
- Contact your bank for instructions. It’s easy! Contact Sawnie for the account name
- To pay by check, send to:
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I look forward to our reading & writing poems together.
TO REGISTER AND/OR FOR MORE INFORMATION: CONTACT US
APRIL
ONLINE!
IMAGINING THE SEA
SOMOS presents a poetry reading by Sawnie Morris & Renee Gregario
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- Date: Saturday, April 1, 2023. 4:30 pm, Mountain Time
- Location: At the SOMOS Salon 108 Civic Plaza Dr., Taos NM 87571
- Cost: by donation
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Description: Old friends Sawnie and Renée, who once wrote together and madly and cafés all over Taos Way back in the mid-1980s, will re-join each other in poetic camaraderie. Renee will read from Abyss and Bridge, winner of the 2022 NM-AZ Book award in poetry, published by 3: A Taos Press. Sawnie will read from her new manuscript ,with a poem or two from her book, Her, Infinite winner of the 2015 new issues poetry prize published by New Issues Press, Western Michigan University.
TO REGISTER AND/OR FOR MORE INFORMATION: CONTACT US
SawnieMorris.com 