Compose
on the page -- in our lives
An interactive, contemplative, guided writing group where we employ poetic composition as a doorway to ask the questions:
What does expression on the page teach us about composing a life?
What can poetry teach us about living well?
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We will engage these questions by exploring themes of: coming to the desk and self, the blank page, waiting, attention, voice, silence, the body, home/place, naming, truth telling, grief, rest, witness, contradiction, revision, release and completion.
This is a group not only for those that name themselves as writers. This is for anyone who is curious about what waits within them and who feels the stirrings and yearning to follow it onto the page. This is space for writing in whatever expression wants to emerge, fiction, prose, poetry, jottings and doodles on a napkin. All are welcome with anything they have to share.
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Features
- A weekly or monthly (depending on the format, see below) beautiful curated email with a poem of mine, a recorded reading of the poem for the week, a short reflection and guided writing prompts.
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- Opening poetry reading.
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- Final group Zoom call to share of writing and the experience.
Format
COMPOSE will be offered in three formats below to meet your unique life composition.
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Each format begins Monday, January 7th 2024 with a New Year virtual poetry
on reading January 6th at 4pm EST.
6-week
Weekly Zoom meeting on Saturdays at 7pm EST.
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The 6-week format goes through February 5th.
$135
6-month
Zoom meetings on the first Saturday of each month, 7pm EST.
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The 6-month format goes through June.
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$135
Self-guided
With this entry level option you will receive the Monday emails (either weekly or monthly as you choose) and you will be invited to the opening poetry reading.
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$60
Give the gift of COMPOSE
20% off when you purchase two or more.
(please contact me directly)
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I don't want cost to be prohibitive.
Please contact me for payment plans or scholarships.