I am so happy that we have our online workshops for mature adults. After just the first few sessions of this fall 2021 series, I have been thrilled by the quality of the work produced by our participants.
It is always amazing to me how much fine work emerges from these workshops and how much of a spark it is for each of the poets to react to the poems they write and share.
For me, this current series has been particularly important because although we couldn’t meet in-person and couldn’t take everybody who wanted to be part of this group, we had a full virtual house.
The poets really were able to inspire one another. I have to say for me many of the poems were so emotionally raw and open that I started to cry I saw that others in the group were also emotional at the quality of the poems.
I always talk about the crow and having to get rid of the crow inside you In order to write your story and your truth. I was so grateful for the magic that happened in the workshop, particularly because I came to the workshop feeling emotionally low and I left it feeling happy and excited that so many people could write such amazing poems! For me, it was a living example of how poetry can heal us. it certainly did that for me these past few weeks.
