2018 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Stanley Kunitz said, ‟Poetry is for the sake of the life,” and wrote of receiving a gift, a blessing—which seems to be, in some poems, a blaze of memory. Polly Brown, poet, teacher and naturalist, will lead writers through two poems related to Kunitz’s boyhood home and his experience there, to ask how those poems work ‟for the sake of the life.” Participants will examine both betrayal and redemption in their own lives and explore related memories through their writing, bearing in mind some useful aspects of Kunitz’s craft.