“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious” – Louise Glück
Join poet and author Jessica Moore for a generative one-day workshop in which we will attune to our bodies, our surroundings, and the deep mystery of writing poetry. We’ll discuss selected poems and how they move, how they haunt us, and how the poet uses image and sound to deliver their message. Using a combination of prompts, exercises, and free writing, nature immersion and somatic grounding exercises, we will write together and delve into the unknown realms where our writing takes us.
Everyone is welcome – this workshop is for beginners and experienced poets, and anyone in between.
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.
Date: Friday July 12th, 2024 from 10 AM – 4 PM
Location: The Poetry Barn, 1056 Lakeside Drive, Consecon, Prince Edward County
Cost: $100 with lunch included
RSVP: To register please send an etransfer for the full amount to soulcultivation@bell.net
Space is limited to the first 10 people who register. An email will be sent to everyone once the workshop is full. There is a possibility of offering another workshop on August 13th, 2024 if this workshop fills quickly. If August 13th interests you please send an email to Heather Lindsay at soulcultivation@bell.net.
