How can the imagination transform a story we have told ourselves over and over and over? How can we recreate our lives by reimagining the past? How can we create a future we really want but might be afraid to imagine?
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marie Howe shares some of her own poems and poems by those who have influenced her, such as William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, and Rainer Maria Rilke, along with contemporary poets Stanley Kunitz, Carl Philips, Donika Kelly, Lucille Clifton, Brenda Hillman, Mark Doty, and Brigit Pegeen Kelly.
Each day, we have time to read and talk. We have time to generate writing and time to share it. This is a generative space—comfortable, caring, and uncritical. Let’s look at our old stories in new ways. Let's imagine our way into a vision of reality.
This weekend is open to everyone—beginning writers, experienced writers, and people who have never written a poem before.
