"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."--Sir Francis Bacon (Who doesn't love bacon? ), and “If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it."--Anne Carson
In this hands-on writing class, we are going to unfold the mysterious layers of poetic devices, practicing metaphor, simile, personification, and other ways of disclosing your poem's universal truth by wrapping it in disguises. The class will involve analysis, critique, and lots of freewriting, timed writing and sharing.
Participants need a comfortable notebook and a favorite pen.