Social isolation is so hard. Period. In these times, loving others means staying away. This is a compassionate workshop that is focused on community, care, and light where you will write new poems based off of prompts while we look at the ways poets like Mary Oliver, Stanley Plumly, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joy Harjo, Walt Whitman, and others engage a poetics of the collective—the “I” of the poem that can help us find ourselves and each other—through us, you, and we. One of the powers of poetry is that we can speak to each other across time and communicate our human interconnectedness through song and image. In this course, we will form a compassionate online community and find our voices and each other.

LIVE ELEMENT: We will hold an attendance-optional poetry reading via Zoom during the last week of the course to celebrate your work!