Risk & Play: Flirting with the Unknown

The Sanctuary is delighted to announce that we’ll be collaborating again with world-renowned poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer for an online 3-week course with 2-hour sessions.

Life is serious. Let’s play. Join Rosemerry in letting curiosity, uncertainty and fun drive our writing into fresh, resonant new regions—places we couldn’t possibly predict. That’s right. Writing for pleasure. Finding rules and breaking them. Play is a secret weapon for meeting failure, vulnerability, uncertainty and humility.

Play helps us fall in love with the world, and with words, too. We’ll read poems that make us laugh, shake our heads, open our hearts and show up, and then in that vein, we’ll write. Gravity, of course, is also invited. There’s always a dark underbelly. Let’s tickle it.

COST:  € 80 (Euros) / $92.29 (U.S Dollar)

ONLINE

Session 1: August 13 @ Noon (Mountain Time) | 7:00 p.m. (Irish Time)

Session 2: August 20 @ Noon (Mountain Time) | 7:00 p.m. (Irish Time)

Session 3: August 27 @ Noon (Mountain Time) | 7:00 p.m. (Irish Time)

DETAILS & REGISTRATION (click)

 

Participants will leave with:

·      ideas for how to bring playfulness into our writing practice,

·      an appreciation for paradox and how to explore it through poetry,

·      two poems (or seeds for poems) from each of our in-class writing times,

·      more writing invitations to try on your own,

·      suggestions for how to write past what you know into the unknown,

·      a sense of how creative practice might go beyond the page and into daily life.

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