I am bringing back a Poetry Workshop blog from April 9, 2016, on “How to Be a Poet by Wendell Berry. Here it is, mostly as it was originally posted
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Poetry Workshop: Meeting Shakepeare’s Similes, Metaphors, and Ironies
One a recent TV Commercial, a happy-go-lucky pitchman compares buying insurance to selecting ice cream flavors: there is one for each need. Although his sale comparison method could be considered
“Etches:” Nancy Kunnmann’s Poem About a Memorable Prison Visit
Nancy Kunnmann has been writing poems for several years. Several of the ones she shared at the beginning of my Poetry Workshop at LLI were about her grandchildren. During this
Use the Right Butter and Other Slatherings from our Poetry Workshop
I am in the middle of my nine-week Poetry Workshop at Lifelong Learning Institute (LLIChesterfield.org), we are creating increasingly more wonderful individual and class artistic works. For example, using the
White as Milk: Using Synesthesia to Create New Beginnings
Our poetry workshop at LLI (LLIChesterfield.org) focused on the literary term, Synesthesia, which may also be a technique that combines images from each of the human senses, i.e. sight, sound, taste,
Why is the Laughing Rainbow Blue? Conducting a New Poetry Workshop
Our Director, Rachel Ramirez, thought that my Poetry Appreciation and Writing Workshop was the first one held on that subject at Lifelong Learning Institute in Chesterfield, Virginia (www.LLIChesterfield.org). Nine students
