“the things themselves”: poetry workshop

Workshop Description: “The most sensuous poets are the ones I trust the most,” says the poet Jorie Graham, citing the way that a word like “justice” can mean a thousand things to a thousand people while a word like “salt” has a much smaller range of possible associations. This workshop will focus our attention on the world of the senses and how our poems can sharpen and heighten the world’s sensorium, offering a shared subjectivity beyond one’s perceptual confines, a way to, together, engage with a larger aliveness. The title of this course is a line from a Lucille Clifton elegy. We’ll use this poem as a lens to consider the ways our socioecological elegiac moment is really an invitation to widened wonder and love.

Teaching Artist: Daniela Naomi Molnar

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Workshop Fee: $35 – $100

This workshop is part of a series of fundraisers in April and May to support the IPRC, with a suggested donation of $35 – $75, or sign up for all four workshops for $100. The first 25 people to register will also receive a limited edition riso print of one of Daniela Naomi Molnar’s poems and original art.

Artist bio: Daniela Naomi Molnar is an artist, poet, and pigment worker collaborating with the mediums of image, language, paint, pigment, and place. She is also a wilderness guide, educator, and eternal student. Her book CHORUS is a finalist for the 2024 Oregon Book Award and was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn Press’ 1st/2nd Book Award.