Eight Minutes of Light: The Energy of Numbers in Poetry

Numbers, counting, and measurements have ways of engaging us and pulling us into a poem, says Veronica Patterson. Think of Wallace Stevens’ ways of looking at a blackbird,  Aaron Abeyta’s derivative about a tortilla,  Walt Whitman’s “sextillions,”  Jane Kenyon’s “Three Small Oranges, the measuring in Yehudi Amichai’s “The Diameter of the Bomb,” Jane Hirshfield’s “The Heart’s Counting Knows Only One.” This Sunday, Patterson will lead a workshop about numbers in poetry—from 2:00 to 4:00 at Artworks in Loveland.  

The cost is $20, with half of that benefitting ArtWorks, our wonderful nonprofit set of studios and (two) galleries. (Cost is $15 for ArtWorks 310 members.)  Register by emailing Patterson at verolee@earthlink.net.