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Leaping: How to Wildly Advance Your Writing

A five-week adventure in growing your voice
Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. October 13-Nov. 10

When a stranger on the corner asked, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” pianist Arthur Rubinstein famously replied: “Practice. Practice. Practice. “ What’s true for the pianist is true for the poet. If you want to improve, it takes practice. In this five-week class, participants will be asked to write a poem a day for a month.

A poem a day?!

Mmm hmm. You can do it even if you’ve never written a poem outside of English class. All participants will receive a 30-day inspiration booklet with 60 possible prompts written by the workshop leader. You can scribble a late-night haiku about your cat or type a 14-line sonnet in rhymed iambic pentameter. It doesn’t matter. Nor does it matter if the writing is “good.” It matters that you write. It matters that you play. It matters that you try new things. More than poetry as product, we’re exploring a poetic life—poetry as path and lens and anchor and kite. These just might be 30 of the most fun, creative, door-opening, writer’s-block-busting, voice-changing, provocative days of your life. Let’s play!

You can register here, or contact the Ah Haa School for the Arts, 970-728-3886

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has written a poem a day since 2006. She co-hosts the Emerging Form podcast, the Stubborn Praise poetry series and Secret Agents of Change (a kindness cabal). Her poems have been featured on A Prairie Home Companion, American Life in Poetry, PBS Newshour and Oprah Magazine. Her most recent book, Hush, won the Halcyon Prize. One-word mantra: Adjust.

Date

Oct 13 2021
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Time

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Date: Oct 13 2021
  • Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Location

Ah Haa School for the Arts
300 South Townsend Street
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Ah Haa School for the Arts
Phone
970-728-3886
Email
info@ahhaa.org
Website
https://www.ahhaa.org