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Ekphrastic Poetry: Using Art to Inspire Poems
Have you visited an art museum lately? Did any of the featured works make you want to sit down and write a poem about it?...
Dates: Aug 12 to Aug 13

Homeward Bound: Portraits of Americans on the Road & in Search of Themselves in Film, Literature, & Popular Culture
This seminar will consider the motivations of key characters in reaching their objective of returning to their roots, while also considering such factors as: the...
Dates: Sep 22 to Sep 27

Journaling Through Life’s Challenges
Writing is a safe way to cope with difficult situations we face. In this seminar, a variety of methods and techniques will be explored to...
Dates: Sep 8 to Sep 13

Mastering Poetic Forms
“The joy of working in form is, for me, the paradoxical freedom form bestows to say the hard truths,” says poet Maxine Kumin. Could it...
Dates: Sep 15 to Sep 20

Poetry: Finding your voice, using it well
This course offers beginners & experienced poets an opportunity to write poems that will clearly and imaginatively express the observations and feelings that are distinctly...
Dates: Oct 13 to Oct 18

The Electrified Joy of Poetry
If you hunger to play and have fun with writing poetry as well as polishing your poetic skills, this is the class for you. You...
Dates: Aug 17

The Experience of Poetry: Telling the Dancer from the Dance
To experience a poem fully, one must look at it from the perspectives of both technique and intuition. Each participant will bring one or two...
Dates: Jul 28 to Aug 3

The Misunderstood Jew
Two exciting and ground-breaking books, The Misunderstood Jew & The Jewish Annotated New Testament, will offer participants a fresh look at Jesus and his fellow...
Dates: Aug 11 to Aug 16

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
This seminar will discuss The Swerve, a book which won both the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, for it is an intellectual thriller...
Dates: Sep 15 to Sep 20

Voyage of the Sea Dragon: Nautical Adventures & Misadventures – Richard Halliburton & Travel Literature
In March 1939, Richard Halliburton attempted to sail a junk from Hong Kong to San Francisco; the ship headed into a typhoon and was never...
Dates: Sep 15 to Sep 20

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