WAG POETRY
CELEBRATING COURAGE AND CHANGE through word and image… A Workshop
Sunday, January 19, 2025 from 1 to 4 pm at WAG
We must have the courage to live with paradox, the strength to hold the tension
of not knowing the answers, the willingness to listen to our inner wisdom and the wisdom of the planet which begs for change. - Maureen Murdock, The Heroine’s
CELEBRATING COURAGE AND CHANGE: A workshop….
...for participants to explore the concepts of courage and change, both within our own selves and as applied to our lives. We will be inspired by poetry, experience several prompted writing and sharing opportunities, and explore the creation of our own personal mandalas. Offered by experienced facilitator and local poet, Sarah W. Bartlett. Basic materials for writing and mandala making will be provided. No prior experience required. Limit of twelve participants.
WHEN: Sunday, January 19, 2025 from 1 to 4 pm
WHERE: Westport Art Group, 1740 Main Road, Westport Pt., MA
$35 All are welcome, WAG members receive a 20% discount.
Please register below by Wednesday Jan. 15 to give you time to receive the welcome letter and gather materials to bring.
Registration has closed.
ABOUT WAG POETS
The WAG poetry group meets twice a month. We offer a judgement-free space to read/have your work heard by poets of widely differing styles and aesthetics; and to ask for specific feedback to further your work. All comments are offered to lift up the strengths of a piece; the writing ultimately belongs to the writer.
Even when we don’t have new work to bring, we use our time to seek ideas for moving ahead, or finding the right vehicle or voice for an inchoate idea. Often we discuss specific aspects of writing poetry; or write together, sharing our words in the moment. We explore our vulnerability alongside our vision, celebrating each individual voice with equal attention. While some of us have published or seek to publish our work, that is neither a focus nor a requirement for participation.
IN HONOR OF THE NEW YEAR:
WRITING IDEAS:
Choose a line or phrase from the poem to start your own writing: e.g., ‘so much of the year is flammable;’ ‘an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space;’ or another that speaks to you.
How do you feel about the idea that ‘so little is a stone’ in the context of the past year?
Using the final stanza, create a ‘golden shovel’ poem in which each word becomes the final word of successive lines. IE first line ends with ‘quick;’ second, with ‘dance;’ third with ‘shuffle;’ and so on.
Use “Burning the Old Year” as a model for your own poem, inserting specifics from your life.
Turn the whole idea around: rather than burning the old year, what would you like to plant, nourish, cherish in the coming year?
WAG Poets Meetings
WAG Poets meet in person in the gallery the second Monday and final Thursday of the month starting at 1:30 pm. There is a $5 fee per person for each session to help defray WAG expenses. We are currently closed to new members.
Please contact Sarah Bartlett at sarbar66@gmail.com for more information.
SPECIAL EVENT
Mark your calendars!
ANTHOLOGY RELEASE AND READING:
Of Tides & Times
Wavewriters
poets of the Westport Art Group
invite you to the release and reading
of their anthology
Thursday Evening, February 20, 2025
5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
WAG Gallery
1740 Main Street, Westport MA
Refreshments and book signing/sales
to follow reading
RSVP to rivermuse3@gmail.com