Introduction to Poetry
Poetry Workshop
Tuesdays, 20:00-22:00
February 21, March 7, 21 & 28, 2017 (four sessions)
Songs without notes, poems allow you to feel and
contemplate on a level you didn’t think possible.
Come and experience the world of poetry.
Perhaps you were taught that poems are a puzzle, but no one ever gave you the key. That poems had to rhyme, have a certain number of syllables, had to have a particular look and style. Poems became something scary and foreign.
And yet you are still drawn to poetry.
So many great works of literature and experience are written in poetic language. Why? Because poems aren’t puzzles. They are tightly woven words, crafted to bring out the music and the energy inherent in the words themselves.
If you long to know more and to create poetry that is magical and moving, join us for this four-week workshop in which we will read poems and begin to write them together. Not to “figure them out,” but to experience them. Find out where and when to break a line, how to shape a poem, various forms of rhyme, the art of revision and the differences between a traditional and an experimental poem.
Come and shape your memories, your pleasures, your obsessions and your dreams into the poems you have always wanted to write.
Perhaps you were taught that poems are a puzzle, but no one ever gave you the key. That poems had to rhyme, have a certain number of syllables, had to have a particular look and style. Poems became something scary and foreign.
And yet you are still drawn to poetry.
So many great works of literature and experience are written in poetic language. Why? Because poems aren’t puzzles. They are tightly woven words, crafted to bring out the music and the energy inherent in the words themselves.
If you long to know more and to create poetry that is magical and moving, join us for this four-week workshop in which we will read poems and begin to write them together. Not to “figure them out,” but to experience them. Find out where and when to break a line, how to shape a poem, various forms of rhyme, the art of revision and the differences between a traditional and an experimental poem.
Come and shape your memories, your pleasures, your obsessions and your dreams into the poems you have always wanted to write.
Instructor Bio![]() Rachel Heimowitz is the author of the chapbook, What the Light Reveals (Tebot Bach Press, 2014.) Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Salamander, Crab Orchard Review, Spillway and Prairie Schooner. She was recently the winner of the Passenger Poetry Prize, a finalist for the COR Richard Peterson Prize, and she has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Rachel received her MFA from Pacific University in Spring 2015. www.rachelheimowitz.com.
Minimum/Maximum No. Participants: 6/12
Cost: 450 NIS for all four workshops (50 NIS reduction for those who've already taken a workshop/seminar with us) Location: PICO Jerusalem, Po'alei Tsedek 2, Talpiyot Payment: Email us regarding payment options. |
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