Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
The Red Bank Public Library 84 West Front Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
“The Lyric Poem -- Exploring the Sacred”
A Workshop Presented by Poet Priscilla Orr
“Sometimes we need to go beyond our own poems, and immerse ourselves in the poems of those masters of the lyric, who have excavated memory, immersed themselves in grief and longing, passion and wonder, and love. We can both experience and explore how that process occurs.
I will be leaning on the work of Luce Irigary, Li-Young Lee, and Ellen Bryant Voight. The poems we’ll read are by Genega, Gluck, Lee, Kildasa, Komachi, Komunyakaa, Kunitz, Merwin, Orr (Greg), Pelletiere, Shikibu, Wright, and others.
While you won’t leave with a prompt for your next poem, I’m hoping you leave enriched and excited about continuing to unearth that which is sacred within you.” Priscilla Orr is the author of two full-length collections -- Losing the Horizon and Jugglers & Tides, Hannacroix Creek Books. She has been published in Southern Poetry Review, Tiferet, Boaat and other journals. She was awarded a fellowship from NJ State Council on the Arts, and a residency at Yaddo. Priscilla is a Geraldine R. Dodge poet and a Professor Emeritus from Sussex County Community College, where she was also the founding director of the Silconas Poetry Center and founding editor of The Stillwater Review. She lives in Hamburg, NJ with her Norwich terrier, Crosby.
Join us for poetic exploration & conversation – no registration needed!
Open Mic. to follow
Your co-hosts Linda Johnston Muhlhausen & Gregg G. Brown lindacjm@gmail.com gregglory@aol.com
