2018 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Participants will experience writing authentically from their bodies instead of their brains by looking at experiential poems as models and by seeing where an awareness of actions such as breathing, walking and dancing can take them.  Contemporary poems are often written from a cerebral, analytic stance; we will approach writing in a fresher, more visceral way, grounding ourselves with simple activities in breath and movement. Everyone will leave having shared at least one poem from the body.