Quick Love: A One-Day Workshop on the Heart’s Poetry
Poetry Workshop with Purvi Shah
Saturday, February 20, 1-4 p.m.
“…Does it extinguish — this grief
for the buds that never were,
even as others are ready to bloom?
Some are always left behind —
with matters of the heart,
we can assume sorrow...”
(from “Songs of Spring,” Terrain Tracks, Purvi Shah)
Have you ever wanted to write a good love poem? Now’s your chance in this special poetry workshop on love poems in honor of Valentine’s Day – and the days that come after. This one-day poetry workshop is for poets and non-poets alike, those who disdain love, and those who relish in it. If you have ever sought to produce a good love poem, here’s your chance.
Through a series of group exercises and individual rapid writing, our goals in this workshop will be to discuss what makes a good love poem, what makes a bad one, and get to writing so that each of us comes away with a polished draft of a love poem evoking whatever kind of love or unlove we presently harbor. Workshop participants will be able to share writing with attendees, produce a poem, and have fodder to continue writing for weeks to come!
Love poems for a pair of twenties is a steal! Save the chocolates and flowers this February: splurge on poetry instead.
Purvi Shah is the author of Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press 2006), which won a Many Voices Project prize. Her debut poetry collection, recognized across Asian American and women’s communities, explores migration as potential and loss. She is preoccupied with the many facets of love, including its temporality and mathematics, concepts she explores in her current poetry project, Love Time(s).
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