Poetry Workshop: Discovery of Light: Movement and Writing
Week 1 | M, W, F | Alumni Hall Ballroom | Ages 18+
This workshop offers a combination of Qi Gong and creative writing as an outlet for expression. The movements of Qi Gong work in conjunction with the energy highways (meridians) that run throughout the human body, helping to open, smooth out and make even the flow of the body’s energies. Afterward, creative writing offers a space for participants’ genius to emerge. Participants connect with a focused personal power through writing, then share with each other in a unified space. This is a generative poetry workshop.
Participants should wear comfortable clothing, be able to take shoes off, and come to class prepared with something to write on and write with (pen/pencil and paper/notebook).
Ruth Forman
Ruth Forman is an acclaimed poet, author, and friend of words. She is the award-winning author of best-selling children’s books Curls, Glow, Bloom, Ours, One, and Like So, children’s book Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon, and poetry collections We Are the Young Magicians, Renaissance, and Prayers Like Shoes. Ruth has received the Barnard New Women Poets Prize, The Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, The National Council of Teachers of English Notable Book Award, and recognition by The American Library Association. She is a former teacher of creative writing with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California as well as a longtime faculty member with the VONA writing program. Ruth is currently a professor at the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English. When not writing and teaching, she practices a passion for classical Yang family style tai chi chuan. You can learn more about her at ruthforman.com.
Class Times
Please come to class prepared with the following:
- Comfortable clothing
- Removable shoes
- Pen/pencil and paper/notebook
