POETRY FROM ART PLAYSHOP: MAKE ART, WRITE POETRY
FRIDAY, JULY 24, 2:00-5:00
$60.00 includes take-home art materials
at The Center for Creativity, 800 Main St. Redwood City, CA 94062
REGISTER AT THE "SHOP" BUTTON ABOVE or Email: LisaMillerBeautifulDay@gmail.
Have you wanted to write poetry? Understand why and how poetry makes sense? Want to find yourself in the flow of art that moves through you and moves you? Writing poetry is as close to the heart as prayer. It's right there in the same way that your thoughts and personal stories are right there—and sometimes the stories of loved ones too. Most, writing a poem is as close to the heart as breathing.
HOUR ONE: This playshop will open with a calming, breathing-meditation to help ground participants in the wise place of self and to step through the door of creative flow. We’ll look at examples of gorgeous contemporary poetry and discuss why certain poems work in terms of form, voice, tone, imagery, metaphor, tension. Learn some fancy terms like: caesura, alliteration, volta, enjambment. Learn how to “break a line” for impact and surprise.
HOUR TWO: Let's write! Using a photo image as a helping tool to direct theme and voice—participants will approach the page with ease and electricity—let’s see what comes through. Learn how to write “the shitty first draft” and then fine tune it. We’ll edit with an eye for brevity and a few new poetic devices from hour one.
HOUR THREE: Poetry-up-your-image. We’ll apply words and lines from the page to the photos themselves (craft supplies provided). We’ll read our work aloud. Participants will leave with the solid draft of a new poem and beautiful journaled pages. Participants will leave with take-home awe for the community of a women’s circle, art, intuition and new skills as writers.
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR:
Lisa M. Miller, MA, MFA, is a multi-faith mind-body health chaplain, community builder, author and awe-encourager. She helps women in every life chapter to fine tune physical, emotional and spiritual resilience through writing and art-making workshops, yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, support groups and ceremonial gatherings. Lisa’s long-time mentors are Indigenous medicine people—her earliest training as a healer on the Squamish Reserve in B.C., Canada. She is a SoulCollage® Facilitator (and retired Trainer). She has a master’s degree in poetry. In Kentucky she feels really lucky to be married to her 1986 summer camp sweetheart.
Books: Woe & Awe (Accents, 2024); The Heart of Leadership for Women: Cultivating a Sacred Space (Balboa Press, 2020); Girls Rock! Just the Way We Are (Editor, Lulu Press, editor, 2005).
Radio Show and limited series podcast: The Women’s Well.
Get in touch with questions:
[email protected]
FRIDAY, JULY 24, 2:00-5:00
$60.00 includes take-home art materials
at The Center for Creativity, 800 Main St. Redwood City, CA 94062
REGISTER AT THE "SHOP" BUTTON ABOVE or Email: LisaMillerBeautifulDay@gmail.
Have you wanted to write poetry? Understand why and how poetry makes sense? Want to find yourself in the flow of art that moves through you and moves you? Writing poetry is as close to the heart as prayer. It's right there in the same way that your thoughts and personal stories are right there—and sometimes the stories of loved ones too. Most, writing a poem is as close to the heart as breathing.
HOUR ONE: This playshop will open with a calming, breathing-meditation to help ground participants in the wise place of self and to step through the door of creative flow. We’ll look at examples of gorgeous contemporary poetry and discuss why certain poems work in terms of form, voice, tone, imagery, metaphor, tension. Learn some fancy terms like: caesura, alliteration, volta, enjambment. Learn how to “break a line” for impact and surprise.
HOUR TWO: Let's write! Using a photo image as a helping tool to direct theme and voice—participants will approach the page with ease and electricity—let’s see what comes through. Learn how to write “the shitty first draft” and then fine tune it. We’ll edit with an eye for brevity and a few new poetic devices from hour one.
HOUR THREE: Poetry-up-your-image. We’ll apply words and lines from the page to the photos themselves (craft supplies provided). We’ll read our work aloud. Participants will leave with the solid draft of a new poem and beautiful journaled pages. Participants will leave with take-home awe for the community of a women’s circle, art, intuition and new skills as writers.
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR:
Lisa M. Miller, MA, MFA, is a multi-faith mind-body health chaplain, community builder, author and awe-encourager. She helps women in every life chapter to fine tune physical, emotional and spiritual resilience through writing and art-making workshops, yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, support groups and ceremonial gatherings. Lisa’s long-time mentors are Indigenous medicine people—her earliest training as a healer on the Squamish Reserve in B.C., Canada. She is a SoulCollage® Facilitator (and retired Trainer). She has a master’s degree in poetry. In Kentucky she feels really lucky to be married to her 1986 summer camp sweetheart.
Books: Woe & Awe (Accents, 2024); The Heart of Leadership for Women: Cultivating a Sacred Space (Balboa Press, 2020); Girls Rock! Just the Way We Are (Editor, Lulu Press, editor, 2005).
Radio Show and limited series podcast: The Women’s Well.
Get in touch with questions:
[email protected]