Solvitur Ambulando – It is Solved by Walking
.... Living poet and walker Jon Cotner says, ‘Poetry can wake us, and in the process we create a shared world or the commons.’ And this is what we will do in this workshop. We’ll wander in the commons of El Rancho, stop to write, listen to poetry, languages, inhabit the space, its air and textures. We’ll observe, experiment, play. We’ll generate draft texts as a result of exercises, our motion and the environment, and then we’ll workshop the lines, paragraphs, or fragments into poetic sequences, prose poems, meditations or lyric essays. We’ll consider the connective possibilities, narrative or non-conventional forms, the unfixedness and layers. And you will wander away from this workshop with a new and dynamic piece of work that will surprise, is generative, and travels – much like a walk in new geography without a map or Fitbit or your phone. Come with.
‘The poem is there, it’s right there, it’s always there, and it’s waiting, actually waiting for us.’ (CAConrad)
.... Living poet and walker Jon Cotner says, ‘Poetry can wake us, and in the process we create a shared world or the commons.’ And this is what we will do in this workshop. We’ll wander in the commons of El Rancho, stop to write, listen to poetry, languages, inhabit the space, its air and textures. We’ll observe, experiment, play. We’ll generate draft texts as a result of exercises, our motion and the environment, and then we’ll workshop the lines, paragraphs, or fragments into poetic sequences, prose poems, meditations or lyric essays. We’ll consider the connective possibilities, narrative or non-conventional forms, the unfixedness and layers. And you will wander away from this workshop with a new and dynamic piece of work that will surprise, is generative, and travels – much like a walk in new geography without a map or Fitbit or your phone. Come with.
‘The poem is there, it’s right there, it’s always there, and it’s waiting, actually waiting for us.’ (CAConrad)
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