The Possible’s slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination!
—Emily Dickinson
The next paired writing events sponsored by the Loveland Poet Laureate are coming up at the end of this week: a reading on Friday evening and a workshop Saturday morning, both by local poet Chloe Leisure.
“How do we engage and then follow the leaps that spring to
mind” Leisure asks, “when we hear a word or phrase that sets off some
mechanism, some nostalgic familiarity, a little wiggling of a memory we’ve
retained all these years, back from when we were first making sense of our
world? How can we find the space ‘between chance and mystery’ and let our
imagination breathe and roam as wildly as when we were small? How might the
imagination be connected to paradigm shifts of what’s possible in an uncertain
and unjust society?”
Participants in the workshop, Back, Again: Reunion of the
Imagination, will explore these questions and will practice complementary
writing techniques.
The Friday reading will be a great warm up for the workshop,
but participation in both is not required.
Pre-registration is, though, through the Loveland
Public Library. Zoom meeting link will be emailed upon registration.
More good news: both
events are free (although donations to the Loveland Poet Laureate
or to Columbine
Poets of Colorado- Northern CO Chapter are welcomed)
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