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Attic Institute: WINTER Online: Other Inspirations Poetry Workshop w Matthew Dickman | Feb 22 – Mar 22

Online N/A, Portland

In this class we will be exploring Ekphrastic Poetry and looking to painting, photography and music as our inspiration. Can ekphrastic poetry be more than a reflection or comment on a piece of art? Can it be more than a beautiful description of another piece of art? We will find out together through looking at the paintings, photographs, and music that has inspired great poems-- as well as writing our own. Register for this workshop NOTE: To protect everyone during the COVID-19 pandemic, we're offering our workshops via Zoom. All students must first sign up for a free Zoom account. Setting it up is easy. And we can help you with questions, if needed. For each class, you'll receive a Zoom "invitation," from the instructor. Click the link...follow the simple…

$215 – $242

John Brehm in Conversation with Heather Sellers

Online N/A, Portland

Broadway Books is pleased to host a virtual event with author John Brehm discussing his most recent book, The Dharma of Poetry, with Heather Sellers. In The Dharma of Poetry, Brehm shows how poems can be a source of wisdom and an entry into spiritual practice and how poems can open up new ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world that anyone engaged in spiritual practice--or wishing to live a more mindful life--might want to emulate. This collection of lively, elegantly written essays offers in-depth explorations of twenty poems. It also offers poetry-related meditations and writing prompts that invite readers to directly engage with the poems and ideas discussed in the book and expand their own practice of poetry. A stand-alone book, it…

Free