Lexington Community Ed presents: The Poetry of Voice and Silence: Weekend Workshop

This weekend workshop will begin to explore how we can rejoin the oral and written poetic traditions so that a newer and more powerful generation of poems may come into being. On Friday evening we will begin with the Hooley tradition of Ireland where each member of the family or clan would say or read a poem to entertain the group. We will learn to read poems so that there is a marriage between the visible and invisible and write so that the silences sing. On Saturday we will develop a peer group that responds to new writing generated from our discoveries and provides feedback. We will place special emphasis on the reading of poems by participants and stragies for revising. Sunday will be dedicated to the individual, and each participant will meet one-on-one with the instructor for a half-hour to discuss something they have written, or discuss a problem they are having in the reading or writing of poetry. Limited to 10.  Friday, October 15 from 7:00-8:45pm at Lexington High School;  Saturday, October 16 from 9:30am-6:00pm at Lexington Depot, and Sunday time and date to be determined.