Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

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https://classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/shop/dream-mind-poems-2023

Registration includes 4 sessions.

This is not about writing dream poems.  This is about letting the images and thoughts that arise from your dreams free your mind and shape your poems.  And about relaxing the mind (and heart) to let your thoughts flow.  About discovering the rhythms of your own voice.  Here, the image sparks the feeling and the thought; not the other way around.  The image centers the poem.  These will be poems that shake us and move us.

Readings from Reverdy, Huidobro, Paz, Lorca, Rilke, H.D., Langston Hughes, a selection of Chinese poets, Louise Gluck, Matthew Dickman, Henri Cole, Terrance Hayes, and others.

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Registration: https://classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/shop/short-poems

Everyone knows that poems are concentrated art forms made out of language. Many of the most memorable poems written in (and translated into) the English language are under ten lines long. We will spend some time looking at a few of the most famous examples (including Basho, Sappho, W.C. Williams, Robert Creeley, Linda Gregg, Charles Simic, Jean Valentine, Bill Knott, Morgan Parker, W.S. Merwin) and discuss what makes a short poem work, how to go about memorizing them, and then workshopping short poems of our own.

Registration: https://classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/shop/short-poems

Everyone knows that poems are concentrated art forms made out of language. Many of the most memorable poems written in (and translated into) the English language are under ten lines long. We will spend some time looking at a few of the most famous examples (including Basho, Sappho, W.C. Williams, Robert Creeley, Linda Gregg, Charles Simic, Jean Valentine, Bill Knott, Morgan Parker, W.S. Merwin) and discuss what makes a short poem work, how to go about memorizing them, and then workshopping short poems of our own.

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Registration: https://classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/shop/on-the-sublime-writing-the-contemporary-ode

“the ode [is] the perfect means of expressing the sublime”

—Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Since the Greeks, that nebulous poetic form known as the ode (if we can even call it a “form”) has been associated with praise, but also — and more importantly — with rhetorical, emotional, and even topographical “height.” The odes of Pindar celebrate the virtues of warriors and athletic heroes, but by the eighteenth century, odes very often depict Romantic mountains, crags, and deep-cleft cliffs. Yet even in the classical period, as in the crucial treatise of Longinus, the feeling associated with this form — the sublime — slips between emotional and physical elevation. (Longinus’s Peri Hypsous can be translated, for instance, as “On the Sublime” or, more accurately, “On Height.”) In the modern world, this baffling juncture between the physically and emotionally “high” spurs Immanuel Kant to declare that sublime objects “over-bear the mind” and “cast it into a pleasing kind of stupor and admiration.” Hybridizing elements of the writing workshop and the literary seminar, this course investigates the contentious relationship between sublimity and the ode. How, we might ask, does this type of poem capture such a curious (mis)alignment of emotion and physical space? How might the emotional power of the ode be used to interrogate other subjects? Might we, as poets, utilize the ode or the “pleasing stupor” it evokes to refigure our human relationship to a rapidly changing physical environment? Readings will range from the classical period to the contemporary, including works by Pindar, Horace, William Collins, Percy Shelley, Anne Carson, Jorie Graham, Pablo Neruda, Brian Teare, Benjamin Garcia, José Olivarez, and others. We will conclude by attempting to compose our own odes and workshopping these pieces together as a class.

***No experience with the ode or poetic form is necessary for this class. I ask only that you approach this course with a willingness to read and to think adventurously.

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Registration: https://classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/shop/on-the-sublime-writing-the-contemporary-ode

“the ode [is] the perfect means of expressing the sublime”

—Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Since the Greeks, that nebulous poetic form known as the ode (if we can even call it a “form”) has been associated with praise, but also — and more importantly — with rhetorical, emotional, and even topographical “height.” The odes of Pindar celebrate the virtues of warriors and athletic heroes, but by the eighteenth century, odes very often depict Romantic mountains, crags, and deep-cleft cliffs. Yet even in the classical period, as in the crucial treatise of Longinus, the feeling associated with this form — the sublime — slips between emotional and physical elevation. (Longinus’s Peri Hypsous can be translated, for instance, as “On the Sublime” or, more accurately, “On Height.”) In the modern world, this baffling juncture between the physically and emotionally “high” spurs Immanuel Kant to declare that sublime objects “over-bear the mind” and “cast it into a pleasing kind of stupor and admiration.” Hybridizing elements of the writing workshop and the literary seminar, this course investigates the contentious relationship between sublimity and the ode. How, we might ask, does this type of poem capture such a curious (mis)alignment of emotion and physical space? How might the emotional power of the ode be used to interrogate other subjects? Might we, as poets, utilize the ode or the “pleasing stupor” it evokes to refigure our human relationship to a rapidly changing physical environment? Readings will range from the classical period to the contemporary, including works by Pindar, Horace, William Collins, Percy Shelley, Anne Carson, Jorie Graham, Pablo Neruda, Brian Teare, Benjamin Garcia, José Olivarez, and others. We will conclude by attempting to compose our own odes and workshopping these pieces together as a class.

***No experience with the ode or poetic form is necessary for this class. I ask only that you approach this course with a willingness to read and to think adventurously.

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Registration: https://classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/shop/on-the-sublime-writing-the-contemporary-ode

“the ode [is] the perfect means of expressing the sublime”

—Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Since the Greeks, that nebulous poetic form known as the ode (if we can even call it a “form”) has been associated with praise, but also — and more importantly — with rhetorical, emotional, and even topographical “height.” The odes of Pindar celebrate the virtues of warriors and athletic heroes, but by the eighteenth century, odes very often depict Romantic mountains, crags, and deep-cleft cliffs. Yet even in the classical period, as in the crucial treatise of Longinus, the feeling associated with this form — the sublime — slips between emotional and physical elevation. (Longinus’s Peri Hypsous can be translated, for instance, as “On the Sublime” or, more accurately, “On Height.”) In the modern world, this baffling juncture between the physically and emotionally “high” spurs Immanuel Kant to declare that sublime objects “over-bear the mind” and “cast it into a pleasing kind of stupor and admiration.” Hybridizing elements of the writing workshop and the literary seminar, this course investigates the contentious relationship between sublimity and the ode. How, we might ask, does this type of poem capture such a curious (mis)alignment of emotion and physical space? How might the emotional power of the ode be used to interrogate other subjects? Might we, as poets, utilize the ode or the “pleasing stupor” it evokes to refigure our human relationship to a rapidly changing physical environment? Readings will range from the classical period to the contemporary, including works by Pindar, Horace, William Collins, Percy Shelley, Anne Carson, Jorie Graham, Pablo Neruda, Brian Teare, Benjamin Garcia, José Olivarez, and others. We will conclude by attempting to compose our own odes and workshopping these pieces together as a class.

***No experience with the ode or poetic form is necessary for this class. I ask only that you approach this course with a willingness to read and to think adventurously.

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Registration: https://classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/shop/on-the-sublime-writing-the-contemporary-ode

“the ode [is] the perfect means of expressing the sublime”

—Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Since the Greeks, that nebulous poetic form known as the ode (if we can even call it a “form”) has been associated with praise, but also — and more importantly — with rhetorical, emotional, and even topographical “height.” The odes of Pindar celebrate the virtues of warriors and athletic heroes, but by the eighteenth century, odes very often depict Romantic mountains, crags, and deep-cleft cliffs. Yet even in the classical period, as in the crucial treatise of Longinus, the feeling associated with this form — the sublime — slips between emotional and physical elevation. (Longinus’s Peri Hypsous can be translated, for instance, as “On the Sublime” or, more accurately, “On Height.”) In the modern world, this baffling juncture between the physically and emotionally “high” spurs Immanuel Kant to declare that sublime objects “over-bear the mind” and “cast it into a pleasing kind of stupor and admiration.” Hybridizing elements of the writing workshop and the literary seminar, this course investigates the contentious relationship between sublimity and the ode. How, we might ask, does this type of poem capture such a curious (mis)alignment of emotion and physical space? How might the emotional power of the ode be used to interrogate other subjects? Might we, as poets, utilize the ode or the “pleasing stupor” it evokes to refigure our human relationship to a rapidly changing physical environment? Readings will range from the classical period to the contemporary, including works by Pindar, Horace, William Collins, Percy Shelley, Anne Carson, Jorie Graham, Pablo Neruda, Brian Teare, Benjamin Garcia, José Olivarez, and others. We will conclude by attempting to compose our own odes and workshopping these pieces together as a class.

***No experience with the ode or poetic form is necessary for this class. I ask only that you approach this course with a willingness to read and to think adventurously.

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop

Description: Weekly poetry workshop with various instructors, free and open to the public! Sign up at the link below and we'll add you to our Google Classroom.

Join here: https://ruthstonehouse.org/workshop