The Spaces Between: A Poetry Workshop

“Sometimes my life opens its eyes in the dark” – Tomas Tranströmer, trans. Patty Crane

There is great richness to the spaces between – between sleeping and waking, between self and world, between idea and image. The space just before something new comes into being. When we write, we reach into the space between thought and word, before or behind language. Sometimes it feels like there are secret trout swimming there. The glint and glimmer of gold scales.

Join poet and translator Jessica Moore for a generative workshop in which we will attune to our bodies, our surroundings, and the tenor of our poetic voice. We’ll discuss selected poems and their currents, and how and why they move us. With a focus on sharpening our specific voice, we’ll use a combination of prompts, free writes, and exercises to write through the spaces between.

Everyone welcome – this workshop is for beginners and experienced poets, and anyone in between.

Date: Saturday, September 14th, 2024 10 AM – 4 PM
Location: The Poetry Barn, 1056 Lakeside Drive, Consecon
Cost: $125, lunch included

RSVP: To register please send an etransfer for the full amount to soulcultivation@bell.net.

Jessica Moore is an author and literary translator with a special interest in the shadowy corridors between languages. Her first book—Everything, now (Brick Books 2012)—is a love letter to the dead and a conversation with her translation of Turkana Boy by Jean-François Beauchemin, for which she won a PEN America Translation award. Jessica’s most recent book—The Whole Singing Ocean (Nightwood 2020)—is a true story blending long poem, investigation, sailor slang and ecological grief, and was longlisted for the League of Canadian Poets’ Raymond Souster Award. She has mentored poets and literary translators through The League of Canadian Poets, the Quebec Writers’ Foundation, the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada and in France at the International Centre for Literary Translators. A former yoga teacher, Jessica is also a gardener and a songwriter, and cultivates a practice of meditation through dance. She lives in Toronto/Tkaronto.