Welcome to the Poetry Kitchen, a home for poets and readers who are searching for thoughtful conversation and deep writing time. Every year I offer a variety of generative, revision, and manuscript classes aimed at developing participants' confidence and independence within a supportive community of fellow makers. Classes are affordable and are open to all.
The following class is now open for registration. Stay tuned for more in the fall.
The Morality of Imagination: Writing into Other Lives
THIS CLASS IS FULL. CONTACT ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING PART OF A SECOND SESSION.
Dawn Potter, instructor
In his long essay “The Defence of Poetry,” the poet Percy Shelley wrote:
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature. . . . A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
In this weekend-long class, we’ll read, discuss, write, and revise new drafts, with a focus on stepping out of our own skins into the lives of imagined others. Poets under discussion will include Patricia Smith, Homer, W. H. Auden, and others.
Date: August 16 and 17, each day 10 a.m.–2 p.m. ET, on Zoom
Cost: $150
Class size is limited to 12 participants.
Inservice teachers will receive 8 hours of professional development credit.
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