"Across the Doorsill of Shame" poetry workshop with Kasey Jueds and Carla Drysdale

Saturday July 18th
4-6 pm Workshop (pre-registration required)
6:30 pm Reading by Carla Drysdale and Kasey Jueds

“Across the Doorsill of Shame: finding the source of poems in the forbidden landscapes of feelings” with poets Carla Drysdale and Kasey Jueds.

In this two-hour workshop, we will take as our touchstone and guide Rumi’s words “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you./Don’t go back to sleep.” How do we cross Rumi’s “doorsill” to access our own secrets in a landscape of stark feelings like shame? How do we allow them into our poems as metaphor, music and image--despite our tendency to want to “sleep” in safer, less challenging places of the mind, body and soul? We will also consider contemporary poems wrought from the other side of the doorsill. Finally, Carla and Kasey will lead us in writing exercises designed to yield exciting and moving new poems from this deep place within ourselves.

The cost of the workshop is $5 and pre-registration is required. All who preregister will receive a $5 coupon toward the purchase of a book by Carla or Kasey the day of the event.The workshop is limited to 12. Registration is final and refunds are not available.

To register and pay, go to: http://tinyurl.com/DrysdaleJueds